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Dan Schlosberg’s seven-player arrangement of Barber’s technicolor orchestration, conducted by Mr. Ashworth, was clever but mostly loud with prominent trumpet and trombone, contributing to a musical performance that had just one gear: ferociously strident intensity.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

The Major League Baseball Players Association has spent decades ferociously fighting against a salary cap, viewing it only as a mechanism designed to suppress salaries without addressing competition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

As the creature who hoists men on their own petards in the ferociously feminist Frankenstein fable, Stone won her second Oscar.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026

Nearly every line in the film’s ferociously hilarious first hour is like Jane Austen reborn as a shock jock, until Song runs out of material and starts repeating herself.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025

I watch how ferociously he’s attacking the paper, the lines so bold and certain, how quickly he flips the page, like every ten seconds.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson