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the rapacity of the Spanish conquistadors was such that they were undeterred by the very preposterousness of the legend of El Dorado
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The rapacity with which Edmund followed his prey is painful to read: To extort money from the merchant haberdasher Thomas Sunnyff and his wife, Agnes, for example, Edmund framed them for infanticide and threw them in jail.
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Catherine Ostler, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023
For decades, sustainability efforts have focused on repair rather than renewal; at the same time, technological progress has plundered natural resources with increasing rapacity, and labor costs have outpaced material costs.
—Longreads, 23 Sep. 2022
Nor has there ever been a time when the link between our rapacity and our present misery has felt as clear.
—Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
According to the American Trucking Associations, though, the trucker shortage is quite real—the product of an aging workforce, the industry’s struggle to recruit women, and the ballooning of freight volumes thanks to our rapacity as consumers.
—Andrew Kay, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2023
Catherine Ostler, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023
For decades, sustainability efforts have focused on repair rather than renewal; at the same time, technological progress has plundered natural resources with increasing rapacity, and labor costs have outpaced material costs.
—Longreads, 23 Sep. 2022
Nor has there ever been a time when the link between our rapacity and our present misery has felt as clear.
—Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
According to the American Trucking Associations, though, the trucker shortage is quite real—the product of an aging workforce, the industry’s struggle to recruit women, and the ballooning of freight volumes thanks to our rapacity as consumers.
—Andrew Kay, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2023
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“Rapacity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rapacity. Accessed 30 Sep. 2023.
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rapacity
noun
ra·pac·i·ty
rə-ˈpas-ət-ē 
: the quality of being rapacious
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