fiend
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He’s a workout fiend, just like his father, Bill, was before him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2025
Ryker was a hockey fiend at about a year old, watching 6 a.m.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
At the time, one critic from The Times of London suggested that “some fiend had been laying siege to Sir Joshua’s taste.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
In the play, King Henry laments the cardinal - his great uncle's - death, saying: 'O! beat away the busy, meddling fiend that lays siege unto this wretch's soul'.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2023
The fiend grinned, showing off teeth as yellow and coarse as horns.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
The good news for summer fiends: The region is expected to warm up next week on Thursday and Friday.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
The late Times movie critic Sheila Benson called the final film in the original trilogy “frankly irresistible” and heaped tons of praise on the furry fiends from the moon of Endor.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024
Lillian and her late husband, Frank, were absolute fiends for efficiency.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023
In 1999's "Cruel Intentions" Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe play the elegant, perilously bored fiends bent on sullying the reputations of Selma Blair and Reese Witherspoon, this time in Manhattan instead of Paris.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2022
The other fiends seemed to shrink from her.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
Vocabulary lists containing fiend
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act V
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