feral

Example Sentences

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His first presidential campaign in 2016 was marked by a feral but highly developed gut instinct for what the public wanted, or at least what it thought it wanted.

From Salon

The virus is better known in the U.S. for sweeping through dairy herds, where it infected dozens of dairy workers, millions of cows and thousands of wild, feral and domestic mammals.

From Los Angeles Times

Researchers say Scotland needs to take a new approach to managing its "expanding" populations of feral pigs.

From BBC

The sweet, slightly feral smell of soil shrugging off ice.

From Salon

For example, non-native feral hogs are now major predators of loggerhead sea turtle eggs along the Georgia coast, USA, while coyotes in eastern North America are expanding onto coastal barrier islands, altering those ecosystems.

From Science Daily