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Read More: The extraordinarily large eyes of colossal and giant squid, for instance, mean that these enormous creatures can spot a sperm whale from hundreds of meters away, according to research, enabling the squid to avoid predation.
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Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2025
By the time both sisters head with their chorus to New York, Karolina has become the new target of Vitek’s predation.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2025
Crops belonging to the nightshade family like potatoes, eggplants, and tomatoes produce these bitter-tasting molecules to help ward off predation by fungi, insects, and other animals.
—New Atlas, 29 June 2025
Researchers think that large, burrowing predators like may have driven the rapid evolution of stream-dwelling salamanders in Appalachia by introducing new levels of competition and predation.
—Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2025
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Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2025
By the time both sisters head with their chorus to New York, Karolina has become the new target of Vitek’s predation.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2025
Crops belonging to the nightshade family like potatoes, eggplants, and tomatoes produce these bitter-tasting molecules to help ward off predation by fungi, insects, and other animals.
—New Atlas, 29 June 2025
Researchers think that large, burrowing predators like may have driven the rapid evolution of stream-dwelling salamanders in Appalachia by introducing new levels of competition and predation.
—Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predation
Noun
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The spoliation inference becomes a presumption of guilt that's incredibly challenging to overcome.—
Lars Daniel,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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Last Friday, Damien Marshall and other King & Spalding attorneys on behalf of MSG filed a memorandum of law in opposition to Oakley’s motion for what are known as spoliation sanctions, meaning a punishment for failure to preserve relevant evidence.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
14 May 2025
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Vikings, for example, used the extra daylight to sneak in a longer pillage sesh.—
Corey Buhay,
Outside Online,
19 June 2025
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Otherwise, illicit actors will continue to profit from their pillage.—
Justyna Gudzowska,
Foreign Affairs,
2 June 2025
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California was also a land of plunder, a place where rampant capitalism had merged with unrealistic fantasy.—
Andrew Moore,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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At the Jeu de Paume museum, Valland took many risks to safeguard its treasures and record the massive plunder of artwork across France.—
Pat Tompkins,
AFAR Media,
18 June 2025
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“Predation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predation. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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