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wildly
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The consumer price index has been fluctuating wildly.
Don't run about wildly in the room.
Her heart was beating wildly.
His heart was beating wildly.
She would have admitted that she liked Anne--nay, that she was very fond of Anne. But now she knew as she hurried wildly down the slope that Anne was dearer to her than anything else on earth.
This is wildly optimistic.
She nodded, her heart pounding wildly in her chest.
Mary's heart began to pound wildly.
British accents vary wildly.
Movie subtitles
And as they dragged him to the electric chair he clawed wildly the concrete floor with agonized shrieks.
It was wildly extravagant, I know, but having committed the crime. I suddenly felt reckless and gay.
I felt suddenly quite wildly happy. like a romantic schoolgirl, like a romantic fool.
With a wildly beating heart.
We played shy and ran away into the garden. screaming loudly, showing off. wildly determined to attract his attention.
She likes to think of herself as being wildly countercultural. I think she's actually just jealous of the fact that Bern and I really were hippies, briefly.
I kiss you and the bells ring wildly in my temples.
How could I say no? It was so wildly romantic.
She declared herself to me, wildly.
I celebrated my freedom a little bit wildly.
But you so hated coming here you spoke wildly.
German sources there are saying that our claims are wildly exaggerated.
Wildly.
I kissed her wildly, like a husband after a long absence.
Don't shoot wildly, Jane.
I know I'm talking wildly.
Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame - and start not so wildly from my affair.
I felt my heart beating wildly. I literally cried with joy and relief.
The basic idea is wildly simple.
It was all so wildly romantic.
Well, my dear, you won't believe this, but it turns out not only is he handsome and wildly rich, he's absolutely cuckoo for me.
When I hear that noise, it makes me wildly happy.
Who's that man wildly moving his arms?
The bells are ringing wildly.
I fought wildly to keep the creature off me. and all the time screaming with fear. asking forgiveness!
What time is it? - Throwing punches wildly.
I'll defend you a little, a lot, passionately, wildly.
And so, wildly, impatiently, you flew into his arms.
Japanese, Japanese, defending Japanese, panicking Japanese, wildly attacking Swedes.
You fired wildly, in a blind rage, and one bullet dealt the fatal and tragic blow.
We were once a people like yourselves, wildly emotional, often committed to irrationally-opposing points of view, leading, of course, to death and destruction.
You're talking wildly now, Olwen.
And anyhow, it seems to be our evening for talking wildly.
They make me feel wildly sensual.
It's wildly therapeutic.
News and current affairs
It is because America has embraced a policy agenda in recent decades that has caused its economy to become wildly unequal, leaving the most vulnerable segments of society further and further behind.
In fact, it turned out that Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were the ones wildly off the mark.
What is surprising in retrospect is how wildly inaccurate Western assessments of Soviet power were.
This predilection harkens back to the Great Leap Forward of the 1950s, when scrap metal was melted to meet wildly optimistic steel-production targets, thereby advancing Mao's dream of rapid industrialization.
We will then end up with an agreement that will have been wildly oversold and is certain to lead to disappointment in the future - especially in developing nations.
Verdicts on Mao differ wildly.
The current patchwork of 28 separate asylum systems does not work: it is expensive, inefficient, and produces wildly inconsistent results in determining who qualifies for asylum.
Sometimes pendulums continue to oscillate wildly unless there is some friction to slow them down, and sometimes they get stuck.
But if you allow a financial market to spin wildly until it breaks down, it really does seem that you run the risk of years of economic malaise.
In fact, this estimate is wildly optimistic.
Estimates of the number of extinctions have tended to vary wildly, owing to differences in the assumed total number of species, which range from the one million species that have scientific names to an implausibly high estimate of 100 million species.
As wildly different as the two cases are, Fatah resembles the French monarchy before the revolution, incapable of learning from experience or taking the steps needed to avoid its own downfall.
The notion that Americans have gotten better at everything while other rich countries have stood still is thus wildly misleading.
But even if America's wildly excessive military budget is cut sharply (and politicians in both parties are resisting that), there will still be a need for new taxes.
Thus, concerns about QE's supposed ill effects are wildly overblown, and there is nothing especially challenging about eventually reversing course, either.
Instead of moderate inflation, most of the twentieth century was wildly inflationary, as governments over-issued currency.
Some newspapers have stoked the country's ethnic and regional animosities, and can be wildly inaccurate in their reporting.
The patchwork of 28 separate asylum systems is expensive and inefficient, and it produces wildly uneven results in terms of the reception, status determination, and integration of new arrivals.
Our collective belief that markets are efficient helped make them wildly inefficient.
Of course, this wildly optimistic calculation assumes that nobody used more power afterwards.