wolf
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A Cabinet Office report during trials in 2014 warned of this "cry wolf" effect, while pointing out there was strong support among the public for the alerts.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
His principal legislative interest has been to delist the gray wolf as a federal endangered species.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
Nobody has an answer – not Lady Eboshi, certainly not San’s wolf mother or a monk who turns out not to be a monk at all.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
In fact, the domestication of wolf to dog dovetailed into the emerging social structures of humankind, a coevolution documented in ancient petroglyphs of hunting from around 9000 B.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
And although the strange wolf was smiling, the cub could tell it didn’t really mean it.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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He was trying to back up his leader, but accidentally threw him to the wolves.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
Wisconsin can do whatever it wants with its wolves.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
The lakes region Mr. Hoffman describes as “magnetic and mercurial” is home to bears, wolves, badgers, otters and a surprising variety of other creatures, yet their ways of life are being threatened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Rather than humans simply taking control of wolves, Mitchell argues that people and wolves may initially have entered the relationship as relatively equal participants.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Mama Woof gave a stern series of yelps, and the other wolves took up the cry.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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Costa conveys nearly everything he needs to simply through his arrangement of the actors’ bodies: The man hungrily wolfs down his food in the foreground, chattering about Joaquim’s kindness and decency.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2020
Alleged assailants in both cases have been painted as lone wolfs acting out of mental instability and disagreement with the politicians’ messages.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2018
Even the highest-ranking executive shamelessly wolfs down a taco.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2015
He's a boy and wolfs his food down.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2015
He stands at the counter and wolfs down the rest of the pizza.
From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm
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I don’t know why, but I was suddenly ravenous and wolfed down a dozen saltines and two chocolate chip cookies just to chase the taste of my humiliation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
On January 2, I wolfed down a breakfast of dehydrated porridge with Christian Wild, a postdoctoral scholar who works with Pettit.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 18, 2022
That recalls Iowa’s state fair, where generations of presidential candidates have worked the porkchop grill and wolfed down deep-fried versions of all imaginable foodstuffs.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
The children wolfed down usually verboten sugary cereals, while the dads pounded coffees and breakfast sandwiches.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2021
He wolfed down what was left of his sandwich and followed.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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I saw something about Messi wolfing on a brisket sandwich at a Buc-ee’s but without video proof, I suspect that may have been an AI hallucination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
I stopped several times for roadside fruit at different points around the city, wolfing down chili-spiked mango, drenched in lime juice, from behind the wheel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
He was Joey Chestnut wolfing down hot dogs, but without the prize at the end.
From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2023
This, of course, was why I was unable to tear myself away from the deck, wolfing down meals and sleeping as little as possible.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
At the opposite end of the room, Joan was wolfing her Spam and broiled tomato with great appetite.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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