fiend
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Matthieu Jalibert, a broken-field fiend, accepted the invite to run back and England were back under the pump.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
“The fiend has no head,” Knight commented in his review.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
It telegraphs that Abigail is no barbaric horror fiend but instead a sophisticated aesthete, which makes her both scarier and funnier.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
Ryker was a hockey fiend at about a year old, watching 6 a.m.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
Behind me is the elemental fiend of my memories crumbling into powder.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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
She said he was "loved immensely by his family and fiends", adding that he was "kind, caring, and always checking up on you".
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2023
Lillian and her late husband, Frank, were absolute fiends for efficiency.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023
“And have you ever met anyone who could break a stone bench with his fist? Or dispatch a dozen fiends using nothing but flesh and bone?”
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
Vocabulary lists containing fiend
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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