feral

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Scream queen Samara Weaving has an extraordinary yell: shrill, feral and ferocious, like a mongoose before it goes on the attack.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

His first presidential campaign in 2016 was marked by a feral but highly developed gut instinct for what the public wanted, or at least what it thought it wanted.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

They also claimed improved monitoring and "strengthened biosecurity" is needed to prevent any potential spread of disease from feral pigs to domestic animals,

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

Among the precursors of the two-part documentary “Wild Boys: Strangers in Town” is Francois Truffaut’s “The Wild Child” of 1970, the dramatized story of Victor of Aveyron, the celebrated feral enfant of late 1700s France.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

The feral pig is considered a “pest animal,” and as such is not subject to protections afforded, say, a deer, or a person.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green