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as in wild
existing without human habitation or cultivation
a dangerous and untamed land
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as in feral
living outdoors without taming or domestication by humans
tried to capture the untamed horse
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Recent Examples of untamed
The property is an amalgam of lush, untamed vegetation, and is less than a half mile from the mainland.
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Fanny Guénon Des Mesnards, Architectural Digest, 18 Jan. 2025
Something about the untamed, inventive spirit of the place.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Yet there’s something quite suitably untamed about it too.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 Dec. 2024
This wild and untamed online reaction displays an interesting side of the internet and meme culture, one that can actually assist people in comprehending and dealing with global events.
—Callum Booth, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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Fanny Guénon Des Mesnards, Architectural Digest, 18 Jan. 2025
Something about the untamed, inventive spirit of the place.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Yet there’s something quite suitably untamed about it too.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 Dec. 2024
This wild and untamed online reaction displays an interesting side of the internet and meme culture, one that can actually assist people in comprehending and dealing with global events.
—Callum Booth, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for untamed
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Targets Birthright Citizenship Her first foster pair of bald eagle chicks arrived in 1976, having been removed from their wild parents’ nest in Wisconsin.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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The South is being targeted by a major winter storm, most of the nation remains gripped by brutal cold, and high winds threaten to fan the flames of killer blazes in Southern California on Tuesday as the U.S. grapples with wild winter weather.—
John Bacon,
USA TODAY,
21 Jan. 2025
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Elland Road regulars have to agree the stadium has rarely reached that feral, out-of-body, launch-yourself-four-rows state since relegation.—
Beren Cross,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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Rosie, a feral cat his wife adopted and slowly coaxed into trusting her, was skittish and unfriendly, and rarely interacted with Mr. Escott.—
Kellen Browning,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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Mauro Morandi, whose 32-year sojourn on an uninhabited Mediterranean island led to his being known as Italy’s Robinson Crusoe, died on Jan. 3 in Modena, Italy.—
Elisabetta Povoledo,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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The other nine—Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, Wake Island and Navassa Island—are uninhabited outlying islands.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
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In the early hours of Jan. 15, 1947, 22-year-old Elizabeth Short was brutally murdered and then left on the side of the road in an undeveloped Los Angeles neighborhood.—
Alex Gurley,
People.com,
15 Jan. 2025
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Listen to this article After years of controversy over the future of the Park Hill Golf Course, city officials say the vast piece of undeveloped land in northeast Denver will open to the public as a park this summer under the terms of a land-swap deal with the developer that owns the site.—
Elliott Wenzler,
The Denver Post,
15 Jan. 2025
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The 2023 grand marshal is former Arizona Democratic congresswoman Gabby Giffords, gravely wounded in a savage mass shooting in 2011 that also killed six people.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Dec. 2022
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As savage Arctic cold was getting ready to surge south across North America, vivid imagery based on data from weather models showed us what was going to happen.—
Tom Yulsman,
Discover Magazine,
27 Dec. 2022
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After bushwhacking through uncultivated wilderness, the ground team found the woman, the Coast Guard said.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
11 Dec. 2024
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Heathcliff Heaths are areas of open, uncultivated land.—
Anna Moeslein,
Parents,
22 July 2024
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Both have been long-standing states on these lists that have some of the world's most desirable properties for the proximity to beaches and other natural and man-made attractions.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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These are prime opportunities to meet new people in natural settings.—
Dominique Fluker,
Essence,
21 Jan. 2025
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So, yes, as a native Angeleno his loss was a deep cut.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2025
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He's lived his entire life in this favela — a word that refers to a native Brazilian shrub — and has been gardening just as long.—
Jill Langlois,
NPR,
25 Jan. 2025
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“Untamed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untamed. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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