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fierceness

[feers-nis] / ˈfɪərs nɪs /


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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

He also opened a youth center and, for the next decade, dedicated himself to helping others, losing all of the fierceness he’d adopted as a fighter.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 21, 2025

The fierceness of the defence obviously stayed with Goldie - he later saw a poodle and hastily flew away.

From BBC Mar. 2, 2025

That cub knew the fierceness and power of its mother.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper




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