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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

Ciena experienced the wild swings of that era.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

SpaceX shares are trying to end a wild week of trading in the green.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Jeanne Collopy is an animal lover from Colorado, where horses run wild, she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

But his smile was a terrible one, and his eyes were wild.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

Things got even wilder once the film went into release: At a preview in California, a jeering audience spotted Warner Bros. executives and chased them out into the street.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

The roles turned out wilder and more varied than he might have expected but his seriousness and sense of fun never faded, pushing boundaries and himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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

"Mission Wild is about accepting that challenge and setting out to achieve a wilder Gloucestershire, with benefits for people, communities and nature," McLaughlin added.

From BBC ● May 9, 2026

Something wilder, more engaging and infinitely more satisfying to individual participants is arising alongside the old order.”

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

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

“It is the wildest thing,” says Domingo, stretched out on a sectional in the shade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

And Bertha Jorkins, who might have ruined all, proved instead to be a gift beyond my wildest dreams ... for — with a little persuasion — she became a veritable mine of information.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

Or is there space still wilded enough for fleeting magic in suburban sprawl?

From Salon ● May 10, 2024

He’s also been wilding out on Truth Social, uncorking a series of posts that are unhinged, even for him.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2025

And yes, he saw the kid in the blue dress shirt wilding out to the song in a clip from a recent Kamala Harris campaign rally.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2024

“Our young people are out here wilding sometimes, and whatever it takes for us to get them under control, we have to do it,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2022

Every night on Clubhouse, people are just wilding.

From The Verge ● Feb. 1, 2022

I guess dorm parties got old, so they’re wilding out on the subway instead—and were joining them, dammit.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera


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