the wild
noun
: a wild, free, or natural place, state, or existence
The plants were collected from the wild.
They will return the animal to the wild when it is healthy.
I've only seen that animal in a zoo, never in the wild.
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Declared extinct in the wild in 1980, they were eventually reintroduced using a captive breeding program.
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Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2025
There are total of four giraffe species including northern, reticulated and southern, with only around 117,000 existing in the wild, the Giraffe Conservation Foundation in Namibia reports.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
But how other countries respond to tariffs, and how the U.S. responds in kind, is the wild card that is hard to predict.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2025
Gatsby hoped the wild Bacchanalia would bring back Daisy, his former lover.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
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Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2025
There are total of four giraffe species including northern, reticulated and southern, with only around 117,000 existing in the wild, the Giraffe Conservation Foundation in Namibia reports.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
But how other countries respond to tariffs, and how the U.S. responds in kind, is the wild card that is hard to predict.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2025
Gatsby hoped the wild Bacchanalia would bring back Daisy, his former lover.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the wild
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“The wild.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20wild. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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