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
But then suddenly, Graeme's efforts pay off as we sight a stonechat, the feathered fiend who had evaded us earlier, sitting happily atop a fence post.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2024
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
They plan and they fix and they do, and then some kitchen- dwelling fiend slips a scorchy, soggy, tasteless mess into their pots and pans.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
She can summon a Boarblin, and turn the army of snout-nosed, spear-wielding fiends against itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024
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
Lillian and her late husband, Frank, were absolute fiends for efficiency.
From Scientific American ● 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 ● Feb. 20, 2023
“I can’t promise you that many hot dogs will be sold in the Quarter. I will probably be kept busy every moment protecting my honor against those fiends who live down there.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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