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Recent Examples of carnivorous
There's even a dedicated vegan menu – a surprising find in this famously carnivorous corner of the world – and, for the less adventurous, a selection of Italian pastas and sandwiches.
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Scott Campbell, theweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Megalosaurus was a theropod, a class of dinosaurs that were ancestrally carnivorous, bipedal and characterized by hollow, bird-like bones and three toes with claws.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
These dinosaurs are all classified as theropods, which were mostly carnivorous.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2025
Vegetarian women should aim for around 32 mg a day and vegetarian men should aim for around 14 mg—or nearly twice as much as their carnivorous counterparts.
—Christina Pérez, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2024
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Scott Campbell, theweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Megalosaurus was a theropod, a class of dinosaurs that were ancestrally carnivorous, bipedal and characterized by hollow, bird-like bones and three toes with claws.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
These dinosaurs are all classified as theropods, which were mostly carnivorous.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2025
Vegetarian women should aim for around 32 mg a day and vegetarian men should aim for around 14 mg—or nearly twice as much as their carnivorous counterparts.
—Christina Pérez, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carnivorous
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Instead, her life was turned upside down last week after President Donald Trump’s administration began instituting mass layoffs as part of an aggressive effort to trim the federal workforce.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA TODAY,
17 Feb. 2025
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Maybe an aggressive trade for a pass rusher would help, Mike Preston writes.—
Mike Preston,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Feb. 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 deadly blaze erupted Saturday just before 2 p.m. near Fenwick Street, officials told WFSB-TV.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
24 Feb. 2025
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Armed gangs now control approximately 80 percent of the capital, Port-au-Prince, carrying out kidnappings, extortion, and deadly clashes with security forces.—
Mark Joseph,
Newsweek,
24 Feb. 2025
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While keeping their relationship a secret for professional reasons, an unexpected promotion unravels their fraught romance, fueling a violent competition between the duo.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
21 Feb. 2025
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The court approved desegregation plan was fiercely resisted by the Boston School Committee and the many parents who took to the streets in, sometimes violent, protest.—
Aaron Kupchik,
TIME,
21 Feb. 2025
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It was destroyed in the Eaton Fire, which spread at ferocious speeds in high winds, eventually destroying more than 9,000 houses and buildings around Altadena, Calif.—
Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
23 Jan. 2025
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Hudson’s father, Cecil, a logger, had a ferocious temper that scared even his own parents, who lived nearby.—
Eileen Finan,
People.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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Since Friday, Vought has sought to switch off the consumer watchdog, which was created after the 2008 financial crash to protect consumers from predatory financial services practices, many of which are not otherwise regulated by the federal government.—
Douglas Gillison,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 2025
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The department currently oversees federal student loan programs, distributes financial aid and enforces policies meant to protect borrowers from predatory lending practices.—
Hannah Parry,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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After the goalless draw in one of soccer’s fiercest rivalries, the Portuguese manager was yet again outspoken in his press conference.—
Ben Church,
CNN,
25 Feb. 2025
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The game between the fierce rivals was halted after 52 minutes due to fans throwing flares onto the pitch.—
Adam Crafton,
The Athletic,
25 Feb. 2025
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To that end, his meeting with the notoriously rapacious lawyer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong), who’d successfully prosecuted the Rosenbergs and served as Joseph McCarthy’s right hand in anti-Communist hearings, sets off a lucrative and sinister mentorship.—
Scott Tobias,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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There are striking parallels between Deus Ex’s themes and Musk’s own intellectual interests, from transhumanism and rapacious capitalism through to conspiracy theories.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
14 Jan. 2025
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“Carnivorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carnivorous. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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