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 • Mar. 12, 2026

Gyllenhaal zips between tones and styles with a ferocious abandon.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

“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 • Mar. 2, 2026

Startups locked in ferocious competition with rivals can gain recognition quickly as the biggest company within a certain arena.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

De Becker does a similar exercise where his trainees are required to repeatedly confront a ferocious dog.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell