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as in womanizer
a man given to seducing women
she threatened to geld the wolf if he didn't stop making passes at her
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as in predator
a person who habitually preys upon others
no sooner had the lottery winner's name been made public than the wolves with their investment schemes showed up on her doorstep
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Recent Examples of wolf
Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 26 Mar. 2026
And the loss seemed to unleash some hidden resentments, some wolves that had been biding their time deep in the woods but were now baying at the door.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2026
Angela Haupt, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
The New York Mets set the one-day team record, wolfing down 103 one day in 2014 while waiting for a game that was postponed.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 4 Oct. 2025
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Noun
But over the next centuries, that changed as humans reshaped the landscape and eliminated predators like wolves, bears and cougars.
—Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 26 Mar. 2026
And the loss seemed to unleash some hidden resentments, some wolves that had been biding their time deep in the woods but were now baying at the door.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2026
Verb
The urge to wolf down something sweet may be caused by a sudden spike or drop in glucose and other metabolic changes in the body, researchers have found.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
The New York Mets set the one-day team record, wolfing down 103 one day in 2014 while waiting for a game that was postponed.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 4 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wolf
Noun
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Kudos to Gosling, though, for making the skinny-suit-wearing womanizer Jacob more than just an exceptionally sculpted torso.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
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The brothers, their lawyers conceded, were womanizers.—
Michael R. Sisak,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Clustered together in shallow water, the turtles are too slow and too exposed to hide or escape predators.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
30 Mar. 2026
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Clustered together in shallow water, the turtles are too slow and exposed to hide or escape predators.—
Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
30 Mar. 2026
Verb
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From her experience, the grasshopper drawing attention in Arizona devours everything in its path, whereas the chapulín is tied to greener environments and specific crops, such as cornfields, alfalfa, and squash leaves.—
Nadia Cantú,
AZCentral.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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Astronomers have used the XRISM (X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) X-ray spacecraft to discover that a star is being slowly devoured by an elusive stellar companion, solving a mystery that has baffled scientists for over a century.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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But her lover, the increasingly controlling and unhinged army corporal Don José, is gradually dimished to lurking in the shadows and hiding in crowds.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Mar. 2026
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Her lover, Cavaradossi, is accused of helping an enemy of the state, and is framed by a corrupt and violent police chief, Baron Scarpia.—
Courtney Lewis,
Florida Times-Union,
28 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Not the red shirts, whose career life expectancy can be counted on a salt vampire's fingers, but the staff that turns up after the Enterprise has saved the day?—
Chris McMullen,
Space.com,
30 Mar. 2026
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Vanessa Van Helsing wakes up from a coma to discover that a volcanic eruption has blotted out the sun, letting vampires prey 24/7.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
27 Mar. 2026
Verb
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When spores are inhaled, symptoms include fever, nausea and chest pain.—
Hannah Kinzer,
The Conversation,
25 Mar. 2026
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When a degraded grassland returns to health, the ground heaves up, as if inhaling with relief.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Mermaids, centaurs, satyrs, and sphinxes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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That experience helped prepare him for the dangers of filming season 2 of Greek mythology series Percy Jackson, which resulted in more than one real wound for the young stars portraying half-human children of the gods, or, in Simhadri's case, a half-human, half-goat satyr hero.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Dec. 2025
Verb
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With the dead and the wounded sprawled around them, the mocambos gulped the wine from the sacramental chalice.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Mar. 2026
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As studios gulped down profits, talent below and above the line began to demand adequate shares of the pie.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Wolf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wolf. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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