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wild

[wahyld] / waɪld /






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The Lebanese-born painter, sculptor and fashion designer Huguette Caland’s life was as wild and audacious as her art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Who’s ready to have this wild fame brought on them at such a young age?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Microsoft is closing in on $4 trillion territory for the first time in nearly a year, helping to cap a wild ride that’s seen the company find its way back into investors’ good graces.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

The WWF report highlighted other species recoveries around the world, including an increase of more than 70% in the number of wild tigers - from around 3,200 in 2010 to about 5,700 in 2025.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

What good would a seed do me in a mountain that refused to grow anything but pine trees and wild shrubs?

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

The Growing Well Garden in Bow, the Sampford Peverell Tree Wardens in mid-Devon, Shallowford Farm on Dartmoor, and Sustainable Hatherleigh are being recognised for making their communities more eco-friendly, wilder and healthier.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

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

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

Antosca promises that in the back half of the series, the show will get even wilder and more destabilizing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

The smell—the same smell he had found at the lochan—grew richer and wilder and kinder with every step.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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 when the Tigers walloped Clemson 51-10 in the most anticipated matchup of college football’s opening weekend, Kiffin reminded the world that he isn’t content with being the craziest sideshow in America’s wildest sport.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled.

From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness

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

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

“They wilding out here,” DeVante says with a chuckle, but grabs his side.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas




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