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
Becca Hellen, the National Trust's senior national conservator for paintings, said the area around the fiend was "especially difficult" to restore.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2023
Finally one last fiend ran straight at William.
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
William swung the donkey’s fourth leg above his head and advanced on the fiends.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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