as in depredation
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Recent Examples of predation
The casino business model of racial targeting and predation is the last thing our communities need.
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Aimee Rosato, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2025
In that time, the team has seen a buffet of predation, including instances where experts weren’t quite sure what was being eaten.
—Mark Price, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
Deforestation, overgrazing, droughts, predation by wild dogs and other threats loom over the future of this eccentric animal.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
In this case, the hyena’s predation on goats led to its tracking and eventual death.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2025
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Aimee Rosato, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2025
In that time, the team has seen a buffet of predation, including instances where experts weren’t quite sure what was being eaten.
—Mark Price, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
Deforestation, overgrazing, droughts, predation by wild dogs and other threats loom over the future of this eccentric animal.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
In this case, the hyena’s predation on goats led to its tracking and eventual death.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predation
Noun
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Chain of Custody Issues: The longer the delay between an incident and preserving mobile evidence, the more opportunities exist for spoliation claims about data modification or tampering.—
Lars Daniel,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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An attorney who allows a client to continue using their phone risks spoliation as normal usage can overwrite or erase crucial data.—
Lars Daniel,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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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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Such tactics included the extraordinary plunder and destruction of the Hundred Years’ War and the fire bombings of cities in World War II.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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And two, even for the plunder of a smash and grab, that seems a sloppy hiding place.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Predation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predation. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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