as in predator
a person who habitually preys upon others
regarded debt collectors as vampires who made a living from the misery of others
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Recent Examples of vampire
Meanwhile, younger brother Sam begins to suspect that Michael's new friends are not merely troublemakers, but vampires.
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Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 2026
Beyond that, non-phantom, non-Dracula vampires aren’t terribly over-exposed in the Broadway genre.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
Mariclare Costello, a lifetime member of The Actors Studio who recurred as the schoolteacher Rosemary Hunter on The Waltons and played a hippie vampire in the cult horror film Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, died April 17 in Brooklyn, her family announced.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026
Feeling restless and reckless, Michael (LJ Benet) is drawn to a hard-rocking local band that is secretly a quartet of young vampires that is literally sucking the life out of the community.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 27 Apr. 2026
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Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 2026
Beyond that, non-phantom, non-Dracula vampires aren’t terribly over-exposed in the Broadway genre.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
Mariclare Costello, a lifetime member of The Actors Studio who recurred as the schoolteacher Rosemary Hunter on The Waltons and played a hippie vampire in the cult horror film Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, died April 17 in Brooklyn, her family announced.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026
Feeling restless and reckless, Michael (LJ Benet) is drawn to a hard-rocking local band that is secretly a quartet of young vampires that is literally sucking the life out of the community.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 27 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vampire
Noun
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Without natural predators to keep the deer population in balance, the deer population first exploded.—
Mark VanderSchaaf,
Twin Cities,
18 May 2026
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In November, a shark killed a woman and seriously wounded a man at a national park beach on Australia's east coast in a rare instance of the predator attacking two people.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
18 May 2026
Noun
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The attack was Australia's first shark fatality since January, when a 12-year-old boy died in a hospital days after he was mauled by a bull shark in Sydney Harbor.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
18 May 2026
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Also, beachgoers are urged to report shark sightings to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
18 May 2026
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“Vampire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vampire. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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