fierceness
Example Sentences
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Chemaf’s founder, Shiraz Virji, son of a Zanzibar spice merchant, once hired dozens of Gurkhas, Nepalese soldiers with a reputation for fierceness, to guard one of the company’s mines against incursions by informal miners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
“The fierceness and price and cost demands of China’s markets make the winners emerging from here far more globally fit than most any other country’s environment will produce.”
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
But I and millions of Americans do remember them for fierceness in their respective battlegrounds, a steeliness any sailor should aspire to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025
The fierceness of the defence obviously stayed with Goldie - he later saw a poodle and hastily flew away.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2025
They, too, like the hillside jungle, were tumultuous with evening, but from the remote height turned to stillness, their fierceness tempered by the air that lay between.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
