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Recent Examples of predation
Among the reasons why trapdoor spiders are ultra survivors are:
Efficient predation techniques.
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
But Houthi predation could be curtailed dramatically if America and its allies move to a policy of extended attribution, whereby Houthi actions have consequences not only for the Yemeni terror group itself but for its paymasters in Tehran as well.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
Even though this particular event marks a first in recorded shark predation, Anderson would not be surprised if more examples emerge in the coming years.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2024
To do otherwise would leave Ukraine permanently subject to Moscow’s predation and coercion—and hand a victory not only to Russia but to China, Iran, and North Korea, all of which are backing Russian aggression.
—Charles A. Kupchan, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
But Houthi predation could be curtailed dramatically if America and its allies move to a policy of extended attribution, whereby Houthi actions have consequences not only for the Yemeni terror group itself but for its paymasters in Tehran as well.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
Even though this particular event marks a first in recorded shark predation, Anderson would not be surprised if more examples emerge in the coming years.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2024
To do otherwise would leave Ukraine permanently subject to Moscow’s predation and coercion—and hand a victory not only to Russia but to China, Iran, and North Korea, all of which are backing Russian aggression.
—Charles A. Kupchan, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predation
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
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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
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Swiss zoologists, botanists, engineers, priests and nuns from missionary societies, merchants and rentier businesspeople, warlords and mercenaries ventured out to participate in plunder and looting as adjuncts or sidekicks of the stronger world powers and financiers.—
Percy Zvomuya,
Artforum,
1 Nov. 2024
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Major museums in the West devoted to the presentation and preservation of art objects have fitfully begun acknowledging their ties to histories of violence and plunder.—
Leslie Camhi,
The New Yorker,
11 Oct. 2024
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“Predation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predation. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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