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Recent Examples of carnivorous
The carnivorous marine isopods typically scavenge carcasses on the seafloor, but may also eat live prey.
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Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
The study was conducted in 2024 at Briones Regional Park in Contra Costa County, Calif., and found that the park's ground squirrels exhibited carnivorous behaviors — particularly in the peak summer months — and hunted voles.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Blumstein, before reading the details of the study, thought that the carnivorous behavior might have been isolated to female squirrels desperate for the nutrients needed to feed their young.
—Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
The predation is described in a study published December 18 in the journal Journal of Ethology and provides the first evidence of carnivorous behavior in this species of squirrels.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2024
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Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
The study was conducted in 2024 at Briones Regional Park in Contra Costa County, Calif., and found that the park's ground squirrels exhibited carnivorous behaviors — particularly in the peak summer months — and hunted voles.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Blumstein, before reading the details of the study, thought that the carnivorous behavior might have been isolated to female squirrels desperate for the nutrients needed to feed their young.
—Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
The predation is described in a study published December 18 in the journal Journal of Ethology and provides the first evidence of carnivorous behavior in this species of squirrels.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carnivorous
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Trump prompts a more aggressive digital posture Democrats adopted a more combative stance online in recent weeks as Trump’s moves to slash the federal workforce drew protests from liberals and pushback at GOP town halls.—
Matt Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Mar. 2025
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As a result, teams are taking a more aggressive approach.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025
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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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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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The first wave of deadly overdoses were tied to OxyContin and other prescription drugs, and subsequent waves have involved first heroin and more recently illicit versions of fentanyl.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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The deadly weapon, prosecutors say, was Diaz's own bodily fluids.—
Chris Spargo,
People.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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The Indiana Crime Guns Task Force was signed into law in 2021 and addresses violent crime in Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Marion, Morgan, Johnson and Shelby counties, according to the Indiana General Assembly’s website.—
Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2025
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The storm, which produced violent tornadoes, raging wildfires, and blinding dust storms, decimated homes, toppled vehicles, and left entire communities reeling from the devastation.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
16 Mar. 2025
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Hot Spring Shark Attack is set in a small, hot spring town in Japan, where a ferocious ancient shark reawakens and terrorizes the local hot spring facilities.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
20 Mar. 2025
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Moments of ferocious, wall-of-noise intensity come interspersed with passages of beautiful calm, like vape breaks between stints inside a dungeon rave.—
Sam Davies,
Rolling Stone,
19 Mar. 2025
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Migrant workers can send money home instantly, bypassing predatory remittance companies.—
Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Critics argue that a cap could restrict credit availability to higher-risk consumers, potentially driving them toward less regulated, more predatory lending practices.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
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Monday night’s fierce winds took it down, damaging the support structures in the process.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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The result captures something rarely seen in sports marketing: fierce competitors actively supporting each other’s growth.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
20 Mar. 2025
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Of abuse and coercion by rapacious family members eager to get their hands on an inheritance.—
Teri Sforza,
Orange County Register,
25 Mar. 2025
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If anything, his regime grew more predatory, more rapacious, more violent in the past few years.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
9 Dec. 2024
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“Carnivorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carnivorous. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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