How to Use Wild West in a Sentence

Wild West

noun
Definition of Wild Westnext
  • But at the same time, the internet is the Wild, Wild West.
    — Michelle Hyun Kim, Vulture, 11 May 2022
  • The new internet is very much a new Wild West, of sorts.
    — Samara Lynn, ABC News, 1 Jan. 2022
  • There’s a Wild West of audio lit out there, all for free (via LibriVox).
    — Paul Grimstad, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023
  • We were blown away to find out that the scam has evolved into something yet crazier and more Wild West.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The town itself has a Wild West feel, a few different natural hot springs, and more than 100 restaurants and bars.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2023
  • It was mocked up like a Wild West village, one where cast and crew could spend the night.= Pioneertown has since been updated.
    — Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The judge tried to curtail the shenanigans at play, but the zany Wild West feverish clamoring was difficult to keep within the bounds of proper courtroom decorum.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • In the summer, people come to climb peaks, run mountain trails, float the river, or just bask in the town’s Wild West vibe and cool, high-elevation temperatures.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Shelton wore a simple black monochromatic look, while Stefani embraced a Wild West look.
    — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The blue jay, on the other hand, blows into town like a Wild West gunslinger entering a saloon – everybody scatters.
    — Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Their newsroom is a remote Wild West, spread out over an international web of devices.
    — Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Those who know the genre well, will always be able to rise above any trendsetting and craft a narrative that connects the tumultuous Wild West to our current point in history.
    — Chris Yogerst, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Mary Fields), a real-life Wild West icon who provides transportation and conversation with equal measures of sagacious sass.
    — Joe Leydon, Variety, 29 Feb. 2024
  • In another first for the season, two survivalists from overseas fight to become the first foreigners to endure 21 days in America's Wild West.
    — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 27 Jan. 2023
  • If artificial intelligence has become the tech Wild West, some new safety features from Microsoft’s Azure are meant to rein it in.
    — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Newspapers breathlessly covered the thefts, as did Western dime novels and traveling Wild West shows.
    — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Befitting the expo’s Wild West theme, attendees wore ID badges designed to resemble wanted posters.
    — Mya Frazier, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Dozens of tribes independently organized in the years after the Creole Wild West’s formation.
    — Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • And for the most part, governments and international organizations are running behind the facts in regulating it, leaving the door open to a Wild West, with more losers than winners.
    — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • From greyhound racing to Wild West re-enactments, Abilene offers an array of unique experiences to explore.
    — Karla Pope, Country Living, 5 Feb. 2023
  • In Russia’s Wild West capitalism, there’s a term for what Yegiazaryan claimed happened: a reiderstvo, translated as a corporate raid or asset grab.
    — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
  • The oldest continuing winter carnival west of the Mississippi is a true celebration of Steamboat’s ski heritage and Wild West spirit.
    — Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Until then, Vegas casinos typically sported rustic Wild West themes, but Siegel ushered in an era of unbridled opulence.
    — Chris Carra, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Contrary to popular notions that space travel is a Wild West where anything goes, in fact there are extensive bodies of regulatory work governing suborbital and orbital flights alike.
    — Rick N. Tumlinson, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2024
  • There’s a lot of Wild West frontier American mythology seeped into the narrative about space—some of it completely inadvertently because a lot of people working on space didn’t pay that much attention in history class.
    — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Unlike other Wild West figures who were lathered in hagiography, Reeves needed no embellishment.
    — Wil Haygood, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
  • However, the vast quantity of data is fueling an unregulated Wild West.
    — Tshilidzi Marwala, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024
  • While romantic depictions of Wild West Black cowboys abound, the story is of course more complicated—one in which the boundaries of agency, imperial conscription, and economic need are continually blurred.
    — Bitter Kali, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 June 2023
  • This Wild West of image-altering abilities is opening new frontiers for everyday people — and creating headaches for those who expect photos to be a documentary representation of reality.
    — Deepti Hajela, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
  • But the verdict is still out on how to handle this technology in how colleges and universities deliver education, especially the growing impact of artificial intelligence in an unregulated Wild West setting.
    — Brian Mitchell, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024

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