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Recent Examples of dog-eat-dog
Capitalism and social interaction tend to be the same kind of cat and mouse games, or for another species analogy, a dog-eat-dog world.
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John Werner, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
With EVs being released and updated on a weekly basis, and manufacturers entering the dog-eat-dog environment, consumers sit home and are itching to buy something.
—Marc D Grasso, Hartford Courant, 16 Nov. 2024
In the dog-eat-dog world of Pierpoint, even his Hail Mary save isn’t enough to keep him in power.
—Nina Li Coomes, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
With its original plans to host 100, Silver says the event is now expected to field a crowd of 350, underscoring his increasing influence in the dog-eat-dog world of college basketball recruiting.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Howard, working from a script by Noah Pink, has a lot of plates to keep spinning, including the story's wild swings between outrageous outbursts, sometimes played for laughs, and dog-eat-dog tension.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2024
But there’s nothing stopping the surfer from hanging out in the parking lot up the cliff, an asphalt jungle with its own territorial, dog-eat-dog ecosystem.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
Recognized as a leading portrait paparazzo, Armstrong-Jones also freelanced in the dog-eat-dog world of Fleet Street newspapers.
—Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2024
Work-life balance in banking Really, achieving work-life balance in any industry is tough—let alone in the famously dog-eat-dog financial industry.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
John Werner, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
With EVs being released and updated on a weekly basis, and manufacturers entering the dog-eat-dog environment, consumers sit home and are itching to buy something.
—Marc D Grasso, Hartford Courant, 16 Nov. 2024
In the dog-eat-dog world of Pierpoint, even his Hail Mary save isn’t enough to keep him in power.
—Nina Li Coomes, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
With its original plans to host 100, Silver says the event is now expected to field a crowd of 350, underscoring his increasing influence in the dog-eat-dog world of college basketball recruiting.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Howard, working from a script by Noah Pink, has a lot of plates to keep spinning, including the story's wild swings between outrageous outbursts, sometimes played for laughs, and dog-eat-dog tension.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2024
But there’s nothing stopping the surfer from hanging out in the parking lot up the cliff, an asphalt jungle with its own territorial, dog-eat-dog ecosystem.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
Recognized as a leading portrait paparazzo, Armstrong-Jones also freelanced in the dog-eat-dog world of Fleet Street newspapers.
—Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2024
Work-life balance in banking Really, achieving work-life balance in any industry is tough—let alone in the famously dog-eat-dog financial industry.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dog-eat-dog
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The Raptors have been an opportunistic franchise over the years, always looking for ways to improve themselves.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
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But, thanks to some opportunistic goal scoring and stellar play from Swayman, the B’s scratched back to tie it before the period was out.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This is part of the most corrupt bargain in American history. KARL: But are their counterpunches having any impact at all?—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Feb. 2025
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Eric Adams has been a lousy mayor for the most part, one who couldn’t see the loaf for the crumbs and squandered his political capital on maintaining a dizzying array of corrupt friends and cronies.—
Harry Siegel,
New York Daily News,
15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Most of all, the recurring visions of flames and matches that flicker through the depraved fever dreams of Wild at Heart (1990), a movie in which incandescent imagery looms so large that the opening credits unfold against an inferno of Halloween-orange flames.—
Zach Schonfeld,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2025
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The experience for the millions of ordinary Americans threatened by Trump's lawless, depraved rampage has been like a sudden flood after a dam bursts.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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There was alarm at the prospect of hundreds of thousands of soldiers returning to the U.S. with such degenerate experience under their belts, and presumably spreading these habits among hitherto innocent American wives.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
9 Dec. 2024
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Ammon did appear tempted to talk the walk in Portland, to become the Mormon cowboy philosopher king wandering a degenerate realm of an ailing Republic, but by now time was in extremely short supply.—
Matt Thompson,
SPIN,
5 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Apple is less profligate than its rivals in terms of capital expenditures.—
Jonathan Vanian,Jordan Novet,Lora Kolodny,Kif Leswing,
CNBC,
28 Jan. 2025
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Arsenal were certainly profligate, with Gabriel Martinelli, Kai Havertz and Jurrien Timber all spurning fine opportunities.—
Elias Burke,
The Athletic,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Whereas The Swimming-Pool Library transpires over one London summer — the last licentious gasp before AIDS— and The Line of Beauty spans the Thatcher era, Hollinghurst has lately been expanding his temporal horizons.—
Sam Worley,
Vulture,
7 Oct. 2024
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Woodhull’s inability to counter the caricature of her as evil and licentious doomed her campaign.—
Allison Lange / Made by History,
TIME,
6 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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Against the backdrop of a degraded web, the improbable success of a volunteer-run website attempting to gather all the world’s knowledge is something to celebrate, not destroy.—
Lila Shroff,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2025
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Microplastics are tiny fragments of degraded polymers that are found in the environment, including our air, water and soil, a news release explained.—
Sara Moniuszko,
CBS News,
4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The end result is a decadent gown that aligns with the cherry red gowns that went down the runway at the brand’s recent presentation.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
9 Feb. 2025
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Choose from savories like Maine lobster and caviar sandwiches and decadent sweets such as a Sacher torte, all while sipping from exquisite glassware.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
9 Feb. 2025
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“Dog-eat-dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dog-eat-dog. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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