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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
Nat Segnit, Harpers Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026
Intense national concern even prompted President Lee Jae Myung to make a statement reassuring the public police, fire officials and the military were doing their best to capture the wolf alive.
—ABC News, 17 Apr. 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
To a fanfare of horns, a centurion on horseback leads the six vestal virgins, a bronze Capitoline wolf carried on a litter, goats, camels, a carnival-float bacchanal drawn by oxen, and a flock of waddling geese in flying-wedge formation greeted by the audience with a gasp of biophilia.
—Nat Segnit, Harpers Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026
Intense national concern even prompted President Lee Jae Myung to make a statement reassuring the public police, fire officials and the military were doing their best to capture the wolf alive.
—ABC News, 17 Apr. 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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Past friends and former associates described him to me as an exceptionally cunning con man, a consummate charmer, and a womanizer.—
Nate Freeman,
Vanity Fair,
3 Apr. 2026
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After years of being known as a womanizer, Barney settled down and married Robin in the show's final season.—
Jane LaCroix,
PEOPLE,
31 Mar. 2026
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This means predators such as birds, insects, and animals leave it alone.—
Victoria Spencer,
Martha Stewart,
27 Apr. 2026
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This resembled the predator-prey systems seen in biology.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Apr. 2026
Verb
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That’s why coleslaw is such a classic—loved and devoured at cookouts, potlucks, and every kind of outdoor meal.—
Victoria Spencer,
Martha Stewart,
30 Apr. 2026
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Bukele devoured an entire political class that didn’t understand social media, for whom TikTok or Instagram were just dances and photos their kids watched on their phones, and YouTube just showed irrelevant videos that would never replace national television.—
Óscar Martínez,
The Dial,
30 Apr. 2026
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Made in response to a difficult breakup, the work alludes to two lovers parting ways, but also to Pau’s memories of isolation as a severely asthmatic child in a notoriously polluted city, lying in bed staring at the wall and inventing stories to distract herself from the difficulty of breathing.—
Pauline J. Yao,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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People who collect rare books are book lovers, first and foremost.—
Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
2 May 2026
Noun
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Beyond that, non-phantom, non-Dracula vampires aren’t terribly over-exposed in the Broadway genre.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
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Mariclare Costello, a lifetime member of The Actors Studio who recurred as the schoolteacher Rosemary Hunter on The Waltons and played a hippie vampire in the cult horror film Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, died April 17 in Brooklyn, her family announced.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Due to the processes that humidifiers use to vaporize water, all of those minerals can potentially wind up in the form of mineral dust, which quickly gathers on the surfaces of your room, or worse, it can be inhaled and cause respiratory problems.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
30 Apr. 2026
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There are no official animal exhibits along the walk, although there are small shelter areas for taking a seat, inhaling nature and feeling nostalgic.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 Apr. 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
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Energy efficiency and carbon reduction were a big part of the pitch, as terrestrial data centers gulp enormous amounts of power and millions of gallons of coolant water.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
28 Mar. 2026
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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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“Wolf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wolf. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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