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as in greedy
having a huge appetite
it seemed like the voracious kitten was eating her weight in food every day
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as in avid
showing urgent desire or interest
a voracious reader
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Recent Examples of voracious
Lieblich is a voracious language hound: In their hands words are a kind of silly putty, malleable and sticky, fungible and fun.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2025
State of play: Sea otters are voracious predators of purple sea urchins.
—Kale Williams, Axios, 29 Jan. 2025
What’s different in 2025 is the tech sector’s voracious appetite for power translating into a willingness to pay a premium for nuclear.
—Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 23 Feb. 2025
People involved in Bregman’s off-field pursuits describe his involvement in an almost identical way to his baseball life, a voracious participant who immerses himself in every facet of the endeavor.
—Chandler Rome, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2025
State of play: Sea otters are voracious predators of purple sea urchins.
—Kale Williams, Axios, 29 Jan. 2025
What’s different in 2025 is the tech sector’s voracious appetite for power translating into a willingness to pay a premium for nuclear.
—Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 23 Feb. 2025
People involved in Bregman’s off-field pursuits describe his involvement in an almost identical way to his baseball life, a voracious participant who immerses himself in every facet of the endeavor.
—Chandler Rome, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for voracious
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Forget the greedy streamers: leave the job of filmmaking to people who care, to people like Corbet and Eisenberg, Fargeat and Zilbalodis.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
3 Mar. 2025
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When Sue becomes greedy with her time, exceeding seven days on the outside, Elisabeth suffers the consequences, and things take a dark and twisted turn.—
Samantha Stutsman,
People.com,
3 Mar. 2025
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One of those suits targets Patrick Byrne, the founder of Overstock.com and an avid supporter of President Trump.—
Lucien Bruggeman,
ABC News,
6 Mar. 2025
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An avid hiker, Lauren knows the importance of dressing appropriately for unexpected weather conditions.—
Lauren Breedlove,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Mar. 2025
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While Scherzinger’s ravenous performance provides a great part of this revival’s adrenaline, the show is also jolted into new life by the collision of the spartan Lloydiverse with all the plush and purple of Lloyd Webber’s score.—
Vulture Editors,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
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By comparing Chandra's observations with the JWST's measurements of hydrogen ionization, the researchers found that galaxies with the most ravenous black holes show the lowest star formation rates.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
2 Jan. 2025
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March Madness is here and fans are excited to watch one of the more popular events of the sports calendar year.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
16 Mar. 2025
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While some locals are excited to gossip about the church, others are much more tight-lipped.—
Guthrie Scrimgeour,
Rolling Stone,
16 Mar. 2025
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But thousands of women, children, and older people – many hungry and some shoeless – trailed behind the troops, doing their best to keep up.—
Barbara Spindel,
The Christian Science Monitor,
12 Mar. 2025
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In 1504, Christopher Columbus, on his fourth trans-Atlantic voyage, was stranded on the shores of Jamaica, with his ships crawling with marine worms and his crew hungry.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
10 Mar. 2025
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Canada is also the largest foreign supplier of steel, aluminum and uranium to the U.S. and has 34 critical minerals and metals that the Pentagon is eager for and investing for national security.—
Rob Gillies,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Mar. 2025
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Businesses weren’t hiring as much, folks weren’t as eager to quit and those without jobs were staying on the sidelines for longer.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN,
6 Mar. 2025
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Like Lynch, Coulson was an enthusiastic practitioner of transcendental meditation, which Green was also persuaded to try.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2025
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Then the good fortunes of an enthusiastic screening at France's Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June of 2024 landed the project a theatrical distribution partner in the indie firm, Ketchup Entertainment.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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Heinlein's book has been the subject of some controversy, as its ardent militarism and unsympathetic rendering of alien antagonists have been widely described as fascist.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
15 Mar. 2025
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The sea of ardent fans answered his call to repeat his tagline, too.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
15 Mar. 2025
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“Voracious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/voracious. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.
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