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poaching

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verb

present participle of poach
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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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Landscape exists to register ideas, like dispossession or despoliation, but not feelings.
    Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
Noun
  • 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
  • Byron is surveying rout and pillage, and the terrible ease with which the laws of civil society, such as respect for the elderly, are flung aside.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • Cuéllar later refuted the suspicion that he was affiliated with the abduction.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Napolitano, to this day, insists the abduction happened.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • On Monday, he was further convicted on counts of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, conspiring to commit aircraft piracy, conspiring to destroy aircraft and conspiring to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The piracy tracking firm VFT calculated that roughly 17 million fans watched the 2024 Super Bowl illegally.
    Vitas Carosella, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024

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“Poaching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poaching. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.

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