wild
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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
Together, these differences suggest that continued warming could give honey bees an even greater competitive advantage over some wild pollinators.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
All we’d been eating were the few fish we’d managed to poach from Cunningham’s stream and once in a while a wild onion or an old potato.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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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
Sir David was close to home again for this series, which lifted the lid on the teeming activity that can make UK gardens just as fascinating as wilder and more exotic places.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
She had once tried acting in New York, which means that she lived a wilder life once and is something of an improviser.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
He was getting wilder than the men downstairs.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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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
Chloe Benjamin’s wildest dreams came true in 2018.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
“Even more privilege than you’ve ever imagined. Technology beyond your wildest dreams. I mean, we have time travel—you can be sure that the video games will be truly awesome!”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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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
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
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
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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