ferocious
Example Sentences
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My mother brought me to this country as a child and toiled with a ferocious determination that afforded our family the means to move farther and farther from the place we started.
From Los Angeles Times
Anthropic’s standoff with the Defense Department has cost it Uncle Sam as a customer, but it has brought a momentary advantage in the ferocious talent war between rival artificial intelligence labs.
“We have never seen a demand cycle like what we are experiencing now in the AI/datacenter infrastructure space,” wrote JPMorgan analyst Stephen Tusa, calling the current environment the “most ferocious we have ever seen.”
From Barron's
"Your wild imagination, your brave untethered womanhood, your ferocious gentleness is a guiding light to me."
From BBC
Falconers believe that the milder the name, the more ferocious the hunter.
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