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Recent Examples of voraciousness
That voraciousness informs her work, her choices, and her understanding of character.
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Clayton Davis, Variety, 21 Nov. 2025
Its voraciousness has threatened native populations of minks, muskrats, and river otters.
—Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Clayton Davis, Variety, 21 Nov. 2025
Its voraciousness has threatened native populations of minks, muskrats, and river otters.
—Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for voraciousness
Noun
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The biblical voracity of these insects make them among the world’s most destructive pests.—
Gennaro Tomma,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2024
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Obviously though, this voracity for Sonnys doesn’t happen in a vacuum.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
8 July 2024
Noun
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The French—and, later, Anglo (Wilde, Beardsley, Rossetti)—attitude, mannered and morbid, was perhaps too Old World, at odds with our cheerful, Protestant rapacity.—
Olivia Kan-Sperling,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Unlike the specialized literary magazine and its informal cousin, the literary blog, the general-interest newspaper has a kind of noble rapacity, an encyclopedic ambition to wrap its arms around the whole of the world.—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Voraciousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/voraciousness. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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