savagely
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Linda alone sees how precariously Willy is clinging to life, and Ms. Metcalf’s forceful turn—I was all but pinned to the back of my seat—reveals how savagely she will fight to save Willy from himself.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
The conditions were savagely difficult and led to a massive contrast, from the free-scoring wonder of Melbourne to a serious scrap in Sydney.
From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025
“Even patches of seawater along the shoreline froze,” Hackford recalls, “and it fit Dolores perfectly: a woman totally isolated at the end of the earth, savagely weathered and tough as nails.”
From Salon • Mar. 23, 2025
“I didn’t yet have the words for what happened to me,” says Dylan, the narrator of “The Lookback Window,” Kyle Dillon Hertz’s gripping and savagely beautiful debut novel.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2023
“The people will never learn,” Arjun said savagely.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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