ferocity

In fact, they responded with the sudden ferocity of a Zinédine Zidane head butt to the chest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

The ferocity of the Lakers answer rattled Houston such that the Rockets were hit with two technical fouls on unbridled anger from Jae’Sean Tate and coach Ime Udoka.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026

They haven’t piled into single stocks with the same ferocity, and instead they’ve put money into the market through index-tracking ETFs.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026

It is not a new complaint - but it is being made with increasing regularity and ferocity in the House of Commons.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026

There’s something of our mother in this man’s ferocity, something of our father in the way he carries himself.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

Pieces by Ravel and Pablo de Sarasate shone as they should, and the evening’s unlikely centerpiece, Ginastera’s Violin Concerto, was a 30-minute fever dream of serialist fancies and ferocities.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2024

Whitman relished these energies; these ferocities in our beings. 

From Slate ● Jan. 9, 2015

The altar boy who might charm the nuns could take on ferocities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, in this play of gloomy wedlock and ill-starred infidelities, he preaches a sad sermon with his quips and makes Margaret Lawrence, who usually seems bearable if not entrancing, a monstrous brute of conjugal ferocities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not content with attributing to him ferocities of which he never was guilty, the chronicles have altogether ignored the fairer side of his character.

From Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1 by Dent, John Charles