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nothing livens things up like a whole team of rapacious basketball players descending upon the pizza parlor
rapacious mammals, such as coyotes, foxes, and bobcats
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To that end, his meeting with the notoriously rapacious lawyer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong), who’d successfully prosecuted the Rosenbergs and served as Joseph McCarthy’s right hand in anti-Communist hearings, sets off a lucrative and sinister mentorship.
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Scott Tobias, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
There are striking parallels between Deus Ex’s themes and Musk’s own intellectual interests, from transhumanism and rapacious capitalism through to conspiracy theories.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2025
Be realistic, however: Talk such as Trump’s could be very useful to those expansionist, rapacious tyrants.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
The 2012 campaign was marked by an early effort by Democrats to tar Mr. Romney as an insensitive, rapacious businessman willing to send jobs overseas.
—Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
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Scott Tobias, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
There are striking parallels between Deus Ex’s themes and Musk’s own intellectual interests, from transhumanism and rapacious capitalism through to conspiracy theories.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2025
Be realistic, however: Talk such as Trump’s could be very useful to those expansionist, rapacious tyrants.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
The 2012 campaign was marked by an early effort by Democrats to tar Mr. Romney as an insensitive, rapacious businessman willing to send jobs overseas.
—Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
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“Rapacious.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rapacious. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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