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Recent Examples of dog-eat-dog
With EVs being released and updated on a weekly basis, and manufacturers entering the dog-eat-dog environment, consumers sit home and are itching to buy something.
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Marc D Grasso, Hartford Courant, 16 Nov. 2024
In the dog-eat-dog world of Pierpoint, even his Hail Mary save isn’t enough to keep him in power.
—Nina Li Coomes, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
With its original plans to host 100, Silver says the event is now expected to field a crowd of 350, underscoring his increasing influence in the dog-eat-dog world of college basketball recruiting.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Howard, working from a script by Noah Pink, has a lot of plates to keep spinning, including the story's wild swings between outrageous outbursts, sometimes played for laughs, and dog-eat-dog tension.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2024
But there’s nothing stopping the surfer from hanging out in the parking lot up the cliff, an asphalt jungle with its own territorial, dog-eat-dog ecosystem.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
Recognized as a leading portrait paparazzo, Armstrong-Jones also freelanced in the dog-eat-dog world of Fleet Street newspapers.
—Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2024
Work-life balance in banking Really, achieving work-life balance in any industry is tough—let alone in the famously dog-eat-dog financial industry.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
However, when Emily secures a managerial position at their dog-eat-dog hedge fund, the power shift within the bullpen begins to splinter their romantic bliss.
—EW.com, 18 Jan. 2024
Marc D Grasso, Hartford Courant, 16 Nov. 2024
In the dog-eat-dog world of Pierpoint, even his Hail Mary save isn’t enough to keep him in power.
—Nina Li Coomes, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
With its original plans to host 100, Silver says the event is now expected to field a crowd of 350, underscoring his increasing influence in the dog-eat-dog world of college basketball recruiting.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Howard, working from a script by Noah Pink, has a lot of plates to keep spinning, including the story's wild swings between outrageous outbursts, sometimes played for laughs, and dog-eat-dog tension.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2024
But there’s nothing stopping the surfer from hanging out in the parking lot up the cliff, an asphalt jungle with its own territorial, dog-eat-dog ecosystem.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
Recognized as a leading portrait paparazzo, Armstrong-Jones also freelanced in the dog-eat-dog world of Fleet Street newspapers.
—Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2024
Work-life balance in banking Really, achieving work-life balance in any industry is tough—let alone in the famously dog-eat-dog financial industry.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
However, when Emily secures a managerial position at their dog-eat-dog hedge fund, the power shift within the bullpen begins to splinter their romantic bliss.
—EW.com, 18 Jan. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dog-eat-dog
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But the Oilers were equal parts tenacious, opportunistic and creative to capitalize offensively.Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 15 Dec. 2024
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Salmon populations are down, and even though belugas are opportunistic feeders, other fish, or even smaller salmon, don’t provide the calorie density to make up for the energy spent hunting them.Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
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Not Arresting Trump | Opinion Instead of fostering violence or corrupt attempts at compromising the certification of election results, the post-election antics of the Republican party in North Carolina were quite peaceful.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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The Emmy winner and Oscar nominee was among three dozen wealthy parents across the country who paid a corrupt college consultant tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to get their children fraudulently admitted to top schools by inflating test scores or fabricating athletic accomplishments.Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2024
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But this act also gave people permission to go far enough—to acknowledge their righteous hatred of our depraved health-care system, and even to conjure something funny or silly or joyous out of that hate.Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
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So many iconic movies were made during this time, about this time, that its version of the city as dangerous, depraved, and degraded lingered for decades.David LaChapelle, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2024
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Ammon did appear tempted to talk the walk in Portland, to become the Mormon cowboy philosopher king wandering a degenerate realm of an ailing Republic, but by now time was in extremely short supply.Matt Thompson, SPIN, 5 Nov. 2024
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Or have his years in finance scrambled his brain and turned him into a degenerate gambler, both at the office and outside it?Zachary Siegel, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
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Germans were angry, too, resentful at bankrolling other people’s profligate ways.Robert Kagan, Foreign Affairs, 2 Apr. 2019
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He would also be lashed, something else that doesn’t tend to happen to profligate auteurs in the West.Damon Wise, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2024
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Whereas The Swimming-Pool Library transpires over one London summer — the last licentious gasp before AIDS— and The Line of Beauty spans the Thatcher era, Hollinghurst has lately been expanding his temporal horizons.Sam Worley, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2024
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Woodhull’s inability to counter the caricature of her as evil and licentious doomed her campaign.Allison Lange / Made by History, TIME, 6 Aug. 2024
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The novel stirred public outrage over the degraded state of the cathedral.Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Bon first garnered attention with Not a Cornfield, a 2005-2006 work that took a 32-acre plot of land in downtown LA, and grew a full seasonal crop of corn, as a way to take a degraded unproductive piece of land and demonstrate its fecundity and potential for transformation.Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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This recipe takes a simple pumpkin cake and turns it into a wonderfully decadent dessert with a creamy, spiced filling and whipped topping with caramel, toffee bars, and nuts.Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 16 Dec. 2024
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Indulge in twenty-four gourmet biscotti bedecked with six decadent flavors.Nora Colomer, Fox News, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Dog-eat-dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dog-eat-dog. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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