depredation

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Recent Examples of depredation Much of Russian research never fully recovered from the depredations of the Stalin era. Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 The pack consists of up to 15 wolves of various ages roaming federal public land near an active cattle grazing allotment, where many of the depredation incidents took place, according the memo. John Leos, AZCentral.com, 24 Aug. 2025 Researchers looked at wolf abundance, the number killed in wolf hunting and by government removals, and livestock depredation in those states from 2005 to 2001, and found that the amount of livestock saved by killing a single wolf, roughly equaled 7% of a single cow. Nathan Rott, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025 McQueen has claimed that depredations on livestock and pets by wolves in her county have become a public safety concern. Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 14 Aug. 2025 Scientists who study sharks acknowledge that depredation — the act of fish being eaten by an underwater predator while on a fisherman’s line — is a growing concern in some areas, especially Florida. Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for depredation
Noun
  • But the spread of agriculture and extermination of prairie dogs have sharply reduced the owl’s western populations.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The four women, three of whom were Jewish, were all inmates of Auschwitz, the Nazis’ most notorious extermination camp outside the southern Polish city of Oświęcim.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The developing cauldron would trap Russian troops with few options beyond surrender or destruction.
    David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Earth, meanwhile, has so far been unable to bring about its own destruction.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Earth shuddered with yet another wave of extinctions in this initial chill.
    Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Moisture of extinction was reached across most of the fire, extinguishing fine dead fuels.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Warned by ornithologists that killing an insectivorous bird that also ate grain seeds would lead to a surge in locusts and caterpillars, Mao dismissed such arguments and urged mass slaughter.
    Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The slaughter of the innocents that follows the birth of Jesus in the Book of Matthew is depicted by limp infants that Gaudí modelled on casts of actual stillborn babies.
    D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The shooting at Evergreen High is at least the seventh school shooting in Colorado since the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School that killed 13 students and one teacher.
    Katie Langford, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Sheriff Tony later condemned his deputies’ failures, including their inaction on removing Nathan’s firearms or seeking a court order under Florida’s red flag law, passed after the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High massacre.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The devastation was swift and heartbreaking and resulted in one of the worst natural disasters in the area’s history.
    Graham Averill, Outside, 16 Sep. 2025
  • At festivals, word of mouth travels fast, and before long, a movie that promises complete emotional devastation becomes the hottest ticket in town.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Depredation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depredation. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.

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