fierce
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Telecom stocks are tumbling on news that SpaceX is aiming to secure 80,000 cell sites across the US, raising the specter of fierce competition between the industry’s big three and Starlink Mobile.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Her backers see in her fierce loyalty and admire her eternal hunt for wage thieves to sue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Being a woman, she explains, is like being an athlete: Competition is fierce, and one’s prime is cruelly brief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Officials say the fierce Santa Ana winds will blow until Saturday, bringing further risk of more conflagrations.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Her voice becomes fierce, just like the first day I met her.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
It’s possible this year’s conditions could grow into a rarer and fiercer “super El Niño.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
The firm had been aiming to close the deal by September but agreed to table its takeover — perhaps until next spring — to allow a fiercer than expected challenge from California Atty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
The Rams head logo has been “enhanced to appear bolder and tougher for a fiercer expression, and the horn features a sharper, more defined point,” the release said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
Nike faces fiercer local competition and cooling consumer demand in China, experiencing sales declines for seven straight quarters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
And each day the beast ate more than the day before, and each day it grew and it became fiercer and stronger.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
The fiercest recent fighting has been on the western approaches, where the two sides are contesting high ground overlooking the city's route south.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Aaron Donald, one of the fiercest pass rushers in NFL history, is coming out of retirement to rejoin the Rams in hopes of winning another Super Bowl title.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
One of the earliest games Golesh remembers watching was an early 1990s Iron Bowl between his new employer and Alabama, one of the fiercest rivalries in football.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Indeed, months of drought and heat waves tend to foreshadow the fiercest wildfires.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
The lions in the Atuot region were said to be the fiercest in the world.
From "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park
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