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• s  marked by extreme and violent energy
  a ferocious beating

• The CBS flap is one more sign of the ferocious struggle between political partisans to see the world their way: The Paper Chase How did Dan Rather get in this fix?.
• The suicide of a retired Oklahoma professor is the impetus for a ferocious family get-together.
• The battle is as long as it is ferocious, and in the audience I saw the movie with, nobody took a breath until it was over.

• fierce
• furious
• savage

News & Articles

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• NBA Finals 2013: The sad song of Manu Ginobili's decline
  SAN ANTONIO -- Manu Ginobili , that wondrous mix of basketball genius and ferocious competitor, has been absent during the Finals. As we focus so much on the Heat and especially Dwyane Wade's inconsistent play, Ginobili's descent has slid under the radar even though his issues are even more pronounced. He's averaging just 7.5 points and three assists and his shot looks flat and way offline ...
  June 15, 2013 - SB Nation
• Thousands without power after high-speed storms thrash NC
  A ferocious line of thunderstorms raced through central North Carolina on Thursday, uprooting trees and snapping power lines with straight-line wind gusts up to 70 mph.
  June 14, 2013 - WRAL.com Raleigh
• KELLER — Rescue dispatchers have reported a "sinkhole" on the roadway near 30542 Lankford Highway...
  A ferocious round of severe weather is starting to wallop the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. - 12:54 am
  June 13, 2013 - Delaware Coast Press

Quotes

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• Richard Branson in CTV.ca
  We know we're going to go through ferocious weather, and that's what we need to get the speeds we need to cross the Atlantic,said Branson, the 58-year-old chairman of the Virgin Group. "But obviously we don't want the kind of storm that's...
• Mahmoud Abbas in Sydney Morning Herald
  This is the 18th day of the Israeli aggression against our people, which is become more ferocious each day as the number of victims rises,Abbas said. "Israel is keeping up this aggression to wipe out our people over there."
• Luka Modric in guardian.co.uk
  It's like my whole world has crumbled because I will be out for at least six weeks. I am terribly sad,Modric told the Croatian newspaper Jutarnji List. "It wasn't a ferocious tackle but it hurt awfully and I knew something was wrong the...