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ferociously

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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 AI labs obsess over the amount of time people spend with their products, chatbots have become ferociously needy people pleasers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

The resurgent Wallabies, driven on ferociously by Rob Valetini and Will Skelton, their returning totems, shocked the Lions to their very core in surging into that huge lead.

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2025

Alfredo Tejada makes a startling company debut as a ferociously frightening Ramón Ruiz Alonso, who arrests Lorca.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

Dr. Finch chewed ferociously on his lunch and eyed his niece, who was arranging lettuce, hunks of avocado, green pepper, and onions in a neat row on her plate.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee