wild
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Joseph Adinolfi looked deeper into the stock market’s wild swings.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
SpaceX shares are trying to end a wild week of trading in the green.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
A neighbor who allegedly fed a wild coyote in Atwater Village for months may now face a criminal charge after a 16-month-old toddler was bitten in the neighborhood, according to authorities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Boulter, 30, took five of nine break points in the match and, even though she faced 13 break points, wild card Sakatsume only managed to take one.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Glenn threw a little wild and caught Charlie’s guard down.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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But Joey Ortiz was pickier, and Sasaki was wilder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Haigh says online comments about her hair colour encouraged her to make it "even wilder"
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
America had its latchkey generation and, along with that, a growing sense that the world is a dangerous place, especially its wilder parts.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
According to Elizabeth Margulis’s fascinating “Transported,” these dreams are wilder, more autobiographical and more communal than ordinary moments of mind-wandering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Another, wilder and more tangled landscape rising up, from beneath the surface of this one.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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Impressive, perhaps, but it was far from the wildest of Musk’s PR stunts.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
It all reduces to the promise of small daily actions that, over time, build into the conquest of your wildest dreams.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
But the wildest party was on Wembley Way, where Fox Sports had an outdoor studio for its live pre-game show.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
But what has really put Sequoia on the marmot-shenanigans map is their all-out assault on the parking lots bordering trailheads in the Mineral King Valley—one of the wildest parts of the park.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
This has been the pattern of his life: ludicrous dreams followed by hours and days and years of work and then a reality surpassing his wildest hopes and expectations.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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Or is there space still wilded enough for fleeting magic in suburban sprawl?
From Salon ● May 10, 2024
"Hollywood is on time out. I'm just going to put that right to the camera. Hollywood is wilding right now."
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2024
Like a pack of wilding drunks, they’re destroying habitats, contaminating water with their wallowing and feces, eroding topsoil and generally making a mess of things.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023
Also in the crowd: Olivia Rodrigo and Demi Lovato, the latter of whom posted a video on Instagram of the former wilding out to “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2023
NP: Do you ever think about just wilding out on Twitter to compete with Elon directly?
From The Verge ● Jan. 25, 2022
They were still wilding and messing with people and putting out squad tracts.
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
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