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Recent Examples of dog-eat-dog
Which is great, because a match-up like that would be the definition of dog-eat-dog; the survival of the least unfit.
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Phil Hay, New York Times, 2 May 2025
The world is dog-eat-dog, and the United States needs to assert itself as the biggest dog.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 1 May 2025
In a dog-eat-dog world, especially in North America, especially in the United States, everything moves very fast.
—Joan Michelson, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Trump made his name as a builder, a mogul in the dog-eat-dog world of New York real estate.
—Mark K. Updegrove, Time, 29 Apr. 2025
Ballard blamed himself for not cultivating a more dog-eat-dog mentality throughout the entire roster.
—James Boyd, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
Capitalism and social interaction tend to be the same kind of cat and mouse games, or for another species analogy, a dog-eat-dog world.
—John Werner, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Some may frown upon these metaphors, but the reality is that business is, to some extent, a dog-eat-dog competition.
—Zain Jaffer, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
With its original plans to host 100, Silver says the event is now expected to field a crowd of 350, underscoring his increasing influence in the dog-eat-dog world of college basketball recruiting.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Phil Hay, New York Times, 2 May 2025
The world is dog-eat-dog, and the United States needs to assert itself as the biggest dog.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 1 May 2025
In a dog-eat-dog world, especially in North America, especially in the United States, everything moves very fast.
—Joan Michelson, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Trump made his name as a builder, a mogul in the dog-eat-dog world of New York real estate.
—Mark K. Updegrove, Time, 29 Apr. 2025
Ballard blamed himself for not cultivating a more dog-eat-dog mentality throughout the entire roster.
—James Boyd, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
Capitalism and social interaction tend to be the same kind of cat and mouse games, or for another species analogy, a dog-eat-dog world.
—John Werner, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Some may frown upon these metaphors, but the reality is that business is, to some extent, a dog-eat-dog competition.
—Zain Jaffer, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
With its original plans to host 100, Silver says the event is now expected to field a crowd of 350, underscoring his increasing influence in the dog-eat-dog world of college basketball recruiting.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dog-eat-dog
Adjective
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The last two victories were part opportunistic and part lucky.—
Daniel Nugent-Bowman,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Industry Response: Preparing for a Post-Dollar Core Speak to U.S. bankers in private and the tone oscillates between fatalistic and opportunistic.—
Zennon Kapron,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Rosamund Pike adds her name to the cast list, starring as a diamond seller whose family launders their profits through corrupt back-channels.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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Countless cases have shown how these schemes have granted safe haven to corrupt actors from around the world and other suspicious individuals in the EU.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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And when he was done with his depraved act, Rojas did not run, according to prosecutors.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2025
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Ontario County District Attorney James Ritts said all five suspects have all been charged with second-degree murder under the state's depraved indifference statute.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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In a guest role that’s been extremely well hidden in the months leading up to the premiere, Bradley Cooper turns heel as Elijah Gemstone, a degenerate con man who sees right through Abel Grieves’s lucrative scam before plugging him in the forehead.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
9 Mar. 2025
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In theory, the walls of carbon nanotubes house a sea of degenerate electrons that have a similar density to metals.—
The Physics arXiv Blog,
Discover Magazine,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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That is often viewed by us profligate, protein-burning, fat-loving energy spendthrifts as an inferior form of metabolism.—
Stephen S. Hall,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
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Cash for rent – Conservatives generally speaking hate the idea of profligate spending on social benefits, seeing them as entitlements that create indolence and a constituency for bureaucracy.—
Roger Valdez,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Whereas The Swimming-Pool Library transpires over one London summer — the last licentious gasp before AIDS— and The Line of Beauty spans the Thatcher era, Hollinghurst has lately been expanding his temporal horizons.—
Sam Worley,
Vulture,
7 Oct. 2024
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Woodhull’s inability to counter the caricature of her as evil and licentious doomed her campaign.—
Allison Lange / Made by History,
TIME,
6 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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This new species was found around villages and gardens, as well as in degraded habitats at a mine site.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
18 Apr. 2025
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First, one neural network takes high-quality images from one instrument and simulates degraded images as if they were taken by a different, lower-quality instrument.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This cake had impressive floral designs, and beautiful pastel colors, and the buttercream itself was decadent and true-to-form.—
Catherine Jessee,
Southern Living,
3 May 2025
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Later in the piece, as the audience is ushered into a decadent cabaret space carved out of the Agger Fish Building, another amazing and largely untold tale is teased, revealed, and spun.—
Corey Seymour,
Vogue,
2 May 2025
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“Dog-eat-dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dog-eat-dog. Accessed 10 May. 2025.
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