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Recent Examples of rapacity Or consider the explorers who left a cold and hungry Europe in search of tropical riches, only to realize that their own rapacity could quickly exhaust the bounty of an island paradise. Deborah R. Coen, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2014 Adjacent to the Gold Room was the Bravo Bazaar, a mall of real commercial rapacity. Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023 The rapacity with which Edmund followed his prey is painful to read: To extort money from the merchant haberdasher Thomas Sunnyff and his wife, Agnes, for example, Edmund framed them for infanticide and threw them in jail. Catherine Ostler, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023 For decades, sustainability efforts have focused on repair rather than renewal; at the same time, technological progress has plundered natural resources with increasing rapacity, and labor costs have outpaced material costs. Longreads, 23 Sep. 2022 Nor has there ever been a time when the link between our rapacity and our present misery has felt as clear. Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023 According to the American Trucking Associations, though, the trucker shortage is quite real—the product of an aging workforce, the industry’s struggle to recruit women, and the ballooning of freight volumes thanks to our rapacity as consumers. Andrew Kay, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2023

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“Rapacity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rapacity. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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