as in smuggling
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as in boiling
to cook in a liquid heated to the point that it gives off steam
poaching fish in a stock flavored with white wine
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Verb
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Continue simmering for about three minutes.—
Michiko Tomioka, Contributor,
CNBC,
5 Jan. 2025 -
What emerged was a picture of active resistance, simmering anger and readiness for battle, if and when the time comes.—
Will Carless,
USA TODAY,
5 Jan. 2025
Noun
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If his decades-long track record is any indication, Sanders would be inclined to make excuses for our adversaries and look on the bright side of their repression and rapine.—
Rich Lowry,
National Review,
25 Feb. 2020
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There is no question about the general philosophy that underlay this great act of public pillage and economic rapine.—
Charles P. Pierce,
Esquire,
13 Mar. 2013
Noun
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That amounts to spoliation, the defense claims, and should result in the dismissal of the charges against Trump.—
Perry Stein,
Washington Post,
30 June 2024
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The West should also prepare for a Russia that inflicts even greater spoliation on a global scale—but not drive it to do so.—
Stephen Kotkin,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Apr. 2024
Noun
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For that reason, the Abraham Accords lie in tatters - a despoliation very deliberately aimed at by Iran and Hamas via October 7.—
Melik Kaylan,
Forbes,
30 Sep. 2024
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Landscape exists to register ideas, like dispossession or despoliation, but not feelings.—
Philip Kennicott,
Washington Post,
5 Oct. 2023
Noun
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These are curated from the titles that were most frequently picked up in the Criterion Closet, that magical room full of the company’s releases that visiting filmmakers and luminaries are invited to peruse and pillage.—
Vulture Staff,
Vulture,
15 Nov. 2024
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At only 6 years old, Esai Reed has endured three emergency evacuations from orphanages across Haiti as gangs pillage and plunder their way through once peaceful communities.—
Dánica Coto,
The Christian Science Monitor,
23 Sep. 2024
Noun
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What happened earlier Thursday Law enforcement officers had been looking for Manning, who was wanted in the abduction of his daughter, Giuliana Manning, about 11:20 p.m. Thursday from a home just outside of Riverside in unincorporated Platte County.—
Noelle Alviz-Gransee,
Kansas City Star,
1 Mar. 2025
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The ceasefire, brokered by the United States, Egypt, and Qatar, ended 15 months of war triggered by Hamas' 2023 attack on southern Israel, which killed about 1,200 people and resulted in the abduction of approximately 250 hostages.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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No film, whether streaming at home or playing in theaters, is immune to piracy these days, especially as fans rally around projects to share their favorite clips.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
1 Feb. 2025
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Thanks to easily burnable CDs and the proliferation of shareable MP3s, record companies lost money to digital piracy in the early aughts.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Jan. 2025
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“Poaching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poaching. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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