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wild

[wahyld] / waɪld /






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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

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

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

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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