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Noun
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No 9, a physical presence up top who wears his shorts like a 1980s Rugby League player and clatters into opponents with a ferocity to match.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025 -
The story captured, as few did, the breadth and ferocity of the coming attack on the federal government.—
Stephen Engelberg,
ProPublica,
20 Mar. 2025
Noun
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That frenzied feeding in the churning water, the savagery and pointlessness of appetite.—
Joyce Carol Oates,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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The savagery of the satire and the humor of the animation, modeled after Feiffer’s drawings, make this cartoon as funny as a Mark Twain story.—
Jeremy Fassler,
Vulture,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Sullivan was arrested on March 12 and charged with first-degree assault, second-degree kidnapping, first-degree unlawful restraint, cruelty to persons and first-degree reckless endangerment.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Officers added at the time that she'd been arrested and charged with assault in the first degree, kidnapping in the second degree, unlawful restraint in the first degree, cruelty to persons and reckless endangerment in the first degree.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Ferociousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ferociousness. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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