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[wahyld] / waɪld /






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Before you check your portfolio, read Jason’s take on how to keep these wild swings from hijacking your financial future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The world-building of the Cat’s unique workplace is fantastically colorful and wild, and the voice cast, from Matt Berry to Bowen Yang, delivers fresh and funny performances.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Today’s battle features 16 stunt performers and 10 special action extras playing orcs, as well as eight stunt performers and 42 special action extras playing wild men and women.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

However, he believes that releasing Harriet into the wild would only result in her being hurt or killed.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

But his smile was a terrible one, and his eyes were wild.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

But Joey Ortiz was pickier, and Sasaki was wilder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 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

According to Elizabeth Margulis’s fascinating “Transported,” these dreams are wilder, more autobiographical and more communal than ordinary moments of mind-wandering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 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

The flint hills rose higher and wilder with each passing mile, until by the fifth day they had turned into mountains, cold blue-grey giants with jagged promonto-ries and snow on their shoulders.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

New technologies often change the world even more than their wildest proponents predict—but the changes are often slower, more diffuse and applied in more unusual ways than anyone expected.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

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

"Never in my wildest dreams did I think that a solar project would be on my farm," Cargil says.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Dear Diary, Tonight the wildest thing happened: I got offered a job from John Tu!

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

Or is there space still wilded enough for fleeting magic in suburban sprawl?

From Salon ● May 10, 2024

He’s also been wilding out on Truth Social, uncorking a series of posts that are unhinged, even for him.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2025

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

“It was such a magical moment, and so iconic what it represents for conservation and wilding in this country,” said Gibbs, who first spotted the baby bison on Sept. 9.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2022

One of my favorite style of tweets is when people are like, “the brands are at it again,” and it usually just means brands are wilding on Twitter.

From The Verge ● Aug. 23, 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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