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as in dodger
a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value
a card shark
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as in expert
a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field
a shark at calculus
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as in predator
a person who habitually preys upon others
being a new arrival in Hollywood, she was easy prey for the sharks in the movie business
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Recent Examples of shark
After all, there are opportunities to see sea turtles, seahorses, sharks, eels, manta rays, and tropical fish in the wild.
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Erik Trinidad, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2024
One player takes on the role of the octopus, and the other the shark, and each is effectively playing by their own rules.
—James Palmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2024
Charlotte didn’t end up as a shark’s lunch and didn’t starve to death floating helplessly in the ocean.
—Ars Technica, 21 Dec. 2024
Or, consider the Greenland shark–the longest living vertebrate known to science, capable of living up to 500 years.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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Erik Trinidad, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2024
One player takes on the role of the octopus, and the other the shark, and each is effectively playing by their own rules.
—James Palmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2024
Charlotte didn’t end up as a shark’s lunch and didn’t starve to death floating helplessly in the ocean.
—Ars Technica, 21 Dec. 2024
Or, consider the Greenland shark–the longest living vertebrate known to science, capable of living up to 500 years.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shark
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While the move aimed at keeping counterfeiters and tax dodgers on the back foot appears at odds with the growing popularity of cash-free transactions by consumers and businesses, central bank and finance ministry officials continue to flag the enduring importance of paper money.Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Asia, 3 July 2024
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Indictment details In the indictment, the department’s tax attorneys portrayed Rotta as a perennial tax dodger.Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
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While many political experts see the move as a U.S. effort to be tough on China, President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to delay its implementation of the upcoming law and reportedly met with TikTok’s chief executive officer Shou Chew last month.Kanika Talwar, WWD, 10 Jan. 2025
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Fire experts, past reports and risk assessments had all anticipated a wildfire catastrophe to some degree.Evan Bush, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2025
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Free from many predators and competitors, South America offered a fertile ground for adaptation and evolution.Scott Travers, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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The introduction of non-native predators to the islands, such as rodents, cats and pigs, has decimated countless avian populations.Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
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By neglecting to impose a time or monkey limit on the experiment, the infinite monkey theorem essentially contains its own cheat code.Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
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Suarez felt like a cheat code in fantasy football that season.The Athletic UK Football Writers, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
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As technology improves and allows better reading of the manuscript, scholars continue to debate the content of the document and how the fragments should be put together in the hopes of gaining even more insight into Hellenic religion and philosophy of the time.Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
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Michael Wara, an energy and climate scholar at Stanford University, said the state’s entire insurance landscape, not just the California’s wildfire fund, might have to be recalibrated if a utility company were found to have caused a major L.A. fire.Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
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Count Von Count Count Von Count is a friendly vampire who enjoys counting anything and everything in sight, from bats to sheep.Casey Clark, Parents, 16 Jan. 2025
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The date was January 11, 1972, and Darren McGavin debuted as Carl Kolchak, an investigative reporter who, in this instance, suspected that a serial killer in the Las Vegas area was actually a vampire.Marc Berman, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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Yet as Russian war atrocities have become more evident, and Ukraine’s need for heavy armor has increased, the lines have grown blurrier and the rhetoric sharper.David E. Sanger, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
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Both offer blistering acceleration and sharper handling than the standard model.Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 19 Feb. 2021
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Most of The Row’s handbags skip the flash of any hardware, but this rare jewel masters the art of glamorous ease with its metal fastening.Alexis Bennett Parker, Vogue, 7 Jan. 2025
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Wright holds a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree in emergency management and homeland security and is a graduate of the School of Police Staff and Command at Northwestern University in Illinois.Tom Sissom, arkansasonline.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Shark.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shark. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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