as in rapacious
living by killing and eating other animals
hawks are predatory and pose a danger to rabbits and other pets
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Recent Examples of predatory
Tequila and heroin can only dull the pain for so long before Lee’s desperate yearning for something more cuts through the haze and sends him back out into dingy bars and narrow alleys, prowling with a predatory lust for men.
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David Opie, IndieWire, 7 Dec. 2024
And Latin American governments have often failed to weaken these groups or curtail their predatory behavior toward society.
—Will Freeman, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2024
Formed after the 2008 banking crisis, the CFPB has a broad mandate to protect Americans from unfair, deceptive or predatory financial practices.
—Tony Romm The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 1 Dec. 2024
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a federal agency championed by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren in 2011 to protect consumers against predatory financial services, has ramped up enforcement actions against fintech and financial services companies under President Biden.
—Jeff Kauflin, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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David Opie, IndieWire, 7 Dec. 2024
And Latin American governments have often failed to weaken these groups or curtail their predatory behavior toward society.
—Will Freeman, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2024
Formed after the 2008 banking crisis, the CFPB has a broad mandate to protect Americans from unfair, deceptive or predatory financial practices.
—Tony Romm The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 1 Dec. 2024
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a federal agency championed by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren in 2011 to protect consumers against predatory financial services, has ramped up enforcement actions against fintech and financial services companies under President Biden.
—Jeff Kauflin, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predatory
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The rapacious killers can wipe out an entire bee colony within hours.Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
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But this particular fight was not actually about putting the interests of patients against those of rapacious corporations.Eric Levitz, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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But proceed with caution, as character actors are extremely protective of their acting prospects, and are known to become aggressive when placed in the same room.Graeme Carey, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2024
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President-elect Trump has vowed to take a more aggressive approach, calling for deportations of foreign students who support terrorism, as well as threatening universities with cutoff in funding and loss of accreditation for not protecting Jewish students.The Editors, National Review, 24 Dec. 2024
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Biden officials are offering up to 30,000 migrants per month a two-year permit to live and work in the United States under the terms of the program, and say such legal pathways are successfully steering migrants toward a safer and more orderly option than the one offered by predacious smugglers.Nick Miroff, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Feb. 2023
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People may be aware that consumer debt collection is predaceous and corrupt; that low-income people face terrible odds in family or housing court; that anyone hoping to receive government benefits depends on the whim, and competence, of bureaucrats seeking to cut costs.Kathryn Joyce, The New Republic, 22 June 2020
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Detailed testimonies of refugees along the Balkan route therefore challenge the conventional wisdom that officials tend to protect them from raptorial smugglers.Max Abrahms, Foreign Affairs, 22 Mar. 2017
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Damsel bugs are slender and tan-colored and have slightly raptorial front legs.Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023
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Brand new Lockerbie: A Search for Truth (Peacock) Jan. 2 Just days before Christmas in 1988, the UK saw its deadliest terror attack in history when a Pan Am flight was blown up over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing 270 people.Lucy Ford, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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The most recent recalls include supplements that contain potentially deadly prescription diabetes drugs, salmon that may be contaminated with listeria bacteria and bread that may be contaminated with metal.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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This is done in part by some masterful pixel-art graphics, which incorporate some wild 2D lighting effects and detailed, painterly sprite world.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2024
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Cakes were often sweetened with homemade jams, filled with wild berries and mountain fruits.Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2024
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After a violent campaign in which Buddhists killed a number of priests and destroyed churches, in 1909, locals built the church that Galipeau visited in Cizhong.Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 17 Dec. 2024
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Prosecutors also said that some of the violent pornography Heuermann owned included methods consistent with the injuries to Mack's body and how she was bound with ropes.Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
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With the centrality of Ellen comes the centrality of her ailment: the film makes frequent and flashy displays of her body-racking fits, which Depp invests with ferocious, wrenching physicality.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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The carnage is truly next-level, including one infamous scene in which Joey wades through a literal pool of bloody, rotting dead bodies—all victims of Abigail's ferocious killer instincts.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Predatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predatory. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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