as in depredation
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Recent Examples of predation
Flight may have also been an advantage to avoid predation, but again, there isn’t enough evidence to support it.
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Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
The company has said its technology has been used to help solve cases involving terrorism, homicide, human trafficking, and child predation.
—David Jeans, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
The natural mechanisms that keep ecosystems in balance, including infection and predation, would not work on mirror life.
—Kate Adamala, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2025
The result is an assemblage of sorts where blue-footed boobies, coral reefs and even bat guano play a leading role, illustrating the ways nonhuman actors and their attendant ecologies have survived human predation.
—Elizabeth Rush, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
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Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
The company has said its technology has been used to help solve cases involving terrorism, homicide, human trafficking, and child predation.
—David Jeans, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
The natural mechanisms that keep ecosystems in balance, including infection and predation, would not work on mirror life.
—Kate Adamala, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2025
The result is an assemblage of sorts where blue-footed boobies, coral reefs and even bat guano play a leading role, illustrating the ways nonhuman actors and their attendant ecologies have survived human predation.
—Elizabeth Rush, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predation
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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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While in Africa, Suchet visits Kimberley, the site of diamond mines (and where Rhodes founded the De Beers diamond company), and the plunder and extraction are so clear.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2025
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The revisionists aim to create an environment primed for expansion and plunder.—
HAL BRANDS,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Predation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predation. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.
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