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as in greedy
having a huge appetite
nothing livens things up like a whole team of rapacious basketball players descending upon the pizza parlor
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as in predatory
living by killing and eating other animals
rapacious mammals, such as coyotes, foxes, and bobcats
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as in mercenary
having or marked by an eager and often selfish desire especially for material possessions
rapacious plunderers who despoiled the tombs in the ancient pyramids
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Recent Examples of rapacious
Without a Yanukovych presidency, the Ukrainian government and armed forces might not have atrophied, and a rapacious kleptocracy might not have taken hold.
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Alexander Vindman, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2022
But providing that service shouldn’t require charging rapacious fees that exploit the most financially vulnerable.
—Jemima McEvoy, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Of abuse and coercion by rapacious family members eager to get their hands on an inheritance.
—Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 25 Mar. 2025
If anything, his regime grew more predatory, more rapacious, more violent in the past few years.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Alexander Vindman, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2022
But providing that service shouldn’t require charging rapacious fees that exploit the most financially vulnerable.
—Jemima McEvoy, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Of abuse and coercion by rapacious family members eager to get their hands on an inheritance.
—Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 25 Mar. 2025
If anything, his regime grew more predatory, more rapacious, more violent in the past few years.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rapacious
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Are the companies somehow less greedy in other states?—
Ted Gaines,
Oc Register,
28 May 2025
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What the greedy developers are trying to do burns me to no end.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 May 2025
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The interest rate on debt covered by the SCRA is capped at 6%, while the rate on interest and fees under the MLA is capped at 36% in order to protect service members from predatory lending practices.—
Ryley Amond,
CNBC,
27 May 2025
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On one hand, insects higher in the food chain – predatory insects – showed a greater tolerance to elevated temperatures but, on the other hand, they were harmed by simplified landscapes that are devoid of natural vegetation – agricultural fields.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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Russia’s shadowy Wagner private mercenary group's importance in the country is being questioned after three of its members were arrested in September and sent back to Moscow.—
Paul Tilsley,
FOXNews.com,
8 June 2025
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Her detailed analysis shows how the country’s restructuring under Putin provided fertile soil for Prigozhin to graduate from woman-strangling street thug to catering star and mercenary prodigy.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
New York Times,
13 May 2025
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Read’s defense team alleges she was framed for O’Keefe’s murder by cops who beat O’Keefe, let a ravenous dog attack him and then dropped his bloodied and bruised body outside in the freezing cold.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
4 June 2025
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There’s a fascinating rawness to the way the film portrays Andy that echoes Mia (Sophie Wilde) in Talk to Me, someone who disguised her ravenous neediness with a grin and a joke, all her grief bottled up inside.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
30 May 2025
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The comedy-drama follows a Gen Z content creator who returns to her ancestral home seeking viral material, only to encounter her deceased brother’s ghost while dealing with avaricious relatives.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
14 Apr. 2025
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This nation state, my home, is built on a quagmire of lies sold to the young as truths; sold to the insecure as truths; sold by the avaricious, the power-hungry, the conceited, the overwhelmingly white and male.—
Christine Winter,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2025
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Lively Feud: Lively Shares ‘Gratitude’ On Instagram After Baldoni’s Lawsuit Is Dismissed Globally, employees are eager to learn.—
Gary Drenik,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Everyone is eager to beat the crowds to the afterparties, held at legendary venues like MoMA, the Carlyle, Tavern on the Green and Pebble Bar.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
9 June 2025
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Over its history OpenText has been an highly acquisitive company to build out its software stack.—
GuruFocus,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Banijay has been among the most acquisitive independent TV makers of recent years, and now reportedly has its sights on ITV.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
27 Apr. 2025
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“Rapacious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rapacious. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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