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 β Mar. 14, 2026
“The fiend has no head,” Knight commented in his review.
From Los Angeles Times β Feb. 24, 2026
Ryker was a hockey fiend at about a year old, watching 6 a.m.
From Seattle Times β 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 β Nov. 10, 2023
Each fiend had big, red, unblinking eyes and a wide red mouth without lips, from which protruded massive, shiny, razor-sharp teeth.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
The good news for summer fiends: The region is expected to warm up next week on Thursday and Friday.
From Seattle Times β 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 β May 2, 2024
Lillian and her late husband, Frank, were absolute fiends for efficiency.
From Scientific American β Sep. 21, 2023
Sixty years ago in March 1963, Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror movie "The Birds" introduced viewers to a small seaside town in California that is suddenly and inexplicably attacked by ferocious feathered fiends.
From Salon β Feb. 20, 2023
“Oh, they were only a collection of fiends, of course. The whole tower turned up-so-down and vanished immediately, and it turned out that they had been fiends all the time, including the priest.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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