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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Further attacks escalated rapidly in extent and ferocity .
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the ferocity of the fighting in the former Yugoslavia
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The ferocity of the piranha fish has made it famous.
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The knife had snapped in two from the ferocity of the attack.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The ferocity of the playing is impressive in and of itself.
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The suddenness and ferocity of the downpour had caught all three of them by surprise.
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The war blazed on with renewed ferocity .
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Trolls are greatly feared because of their unthinking ferocity and indiscriminate appetite.
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What she was feeling now, however, was biting into her with relentless ferocity .
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Whatever it was they were after, it was an unknown quantity, unknown, that is, except for a lethal ferocity .