as in tiger
an aggressive and fiercely determined person
the governor-elect is too nice and easygoing, so he'll need a barracuda as his chief of staff
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Recent Examples of barracuda
There, guests can swim amid psychedelic colored wrasses and butterflyfish, and backstroke with barracudas and reef sharks.
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Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2025
Photo by Rita Harper Day 4: Fly over alligators, bite into barracuda, and hunt antiques
Grab a quick (but exceptional) quiche at the hotel Columns before a 20-minute drive to the Maurepas Swamp, northwest of New Orleans.
—Jenny Adams, AFAR Media, 11 Feb. 2025
On a rocky outcropping by the water, fishermen like to gather to catch blue runner, mangrove snapper, grunt, barracuda and occasionally a blue crab.
—Nicolas Rivero, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
Those fish can include barracuda, moray eel, sea bass and others.
—Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
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Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2025
Photo by Rita Harper Day 4: Fly over alligators, bite into barracuda, and hunt antiques
Grab a quick (but exceptional) quiche at the hotel Columns before a 20-minute drive to the Maurepas Swamp, northwest of New Orleans.
—Jenny Adams, AFAR Media, 11 Feb. 2025
On a rocky outcropping by the water, fishermen like to gather to catch blue runner, mangrove snapper, grunt, barracuda and occasionally a blue crab.
—Nicolas Rivero, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
Those fish can include barracuda, moray eel, sea bass and others.
—Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for barracuda
Recent Examples of Synonyms for barracuda
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Research on the Australian thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), driven to extinction less than a century ago, is ahead of schedule.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
16 Apr. 2025
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After all, what could the pattern of a tiger’s skin have to do with abstract mathematics?—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Barracuda.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barracuda. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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