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wolf

[woolf] / wʊlf /


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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

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

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

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

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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