kites 1 of 2

plural of kite
as in predators
a person who habitually preys upon others characterized the financial advisors as kites who took advantage of their customers

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kites

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verb

present tense third-person singular of kite

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Noun
  • One theory holds that since shells frequently prevent tortoises from being eaten by predators, shelled species tend to live longer, and over time that may have helped to produce evolutionary pressures to age more slowly.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
  • To Catch a Predator was a popular television show designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and eventually arrested.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Like wizards, vampires, and Batman, many of Robert Pattinson‘s offbeat stories doled out during dutiful press interviews are in fact, not real.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Even the most fearsome clique of them all, the Manhattan private all-girls school vampires, are there.
    Katie Rife, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Greenland sharks are slow-growing, less than half an inch per year, but live so long that mature specimens reach more than 19 feet in length.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Based on their growth rates and the size of some sharks, their maximum age could be as much as 500 years.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The video, which has received over 840,000 views since it was shared on November 20, shows Iggy waiting in the backyard while Duffy leaps upward to open the door from the inside.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
  • As a director, Kendrick leaps around in time through the ’70s, staging a number of Rodney Alcala’s pickups and murders.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 Oct. 2024
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