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

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

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2025

“I find a little bit of a fierceness in these performances,” says Andrea L. Press, chair of the Media Studies Department and the Feminist Scholarship Division at the University of Virginia.

From Slate • Dec. 2, 2024

In all sports, they lacked his inextinguishable fierceness, his hunger for games.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy