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as in predator
a person who habitually preys upon others
the real estate buzzards were really putting pressure on the one homeowner who was still refusing to sell
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as in bastard
a person whose behavior is offensive to others
that crotchety old man can be a real buzzard when he's in a bad mood—which is usually the case
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Recent Examples of buzzard
In any case, the buzzards were circling like in an old western.
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Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
But his beef is with his buzzard’s luck in this injury-riddled season.
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Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Aug. 2025
Nothing moved nearby, but high overhead two big buzzards circled slowly.
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Arthur Grahame,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2025
The sight of the buzzards gathered on his elderly neighbor's roof therefore gave Brewer cause for concern.
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Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2025
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Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
But his beef is with his buzzard’s luck in this injury-riddled season.
—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Aug. 2025
Nothing moved nearby, but high overhead two big buzzards circled slowly.
—
Arthur Grahame,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2025
The sight of the buzzards gathered on his elderly neighbor's roof therefore gave Brewer cause for concern.
—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for buzzard
Recent Examples of Synonyms for buzzard
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In Britain, all the large predators had long since been exterminated and the smaller ones (like foxes) were ruthlessly persecuted.
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Adorned with almost graphically violent labels showcasing alpha predators -- a shark, a grizzly, an orca, a lion and some sort of particularly angry bird of prey -- the bottles are a far cry from the placid villas and languorous ladies plastered across so many wines.
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This Jamaican restaurant, located just off Main Street, brings Caribbean flavors to Mackinac Island’s solid rotation of restaurants, with planked whitefish and jerk chicken sandwiches.
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After Game 4, jerks were throwing things at Victor Wembanyama.
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Like Lestat explains, there are levels of enjoyment for a vampire.
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Jones first floated the idea of rock star Lestat while the team filmed Season 2 in Prague in 2023, giving Wood time to begin imagining what a nearly 300-year-old vampire might wear while reinventing himself as a singer.
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What breaks my heart is that Vermax’s cries sounded like a dog crying, a dog dying.
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Roughly the size of a large dog and weighing more than 110 pounds (50 kilograms), the quadruped robot is designed to navigate industrial facilities that include staircases, narrow walkways, uneven surfaces, and confined spaces.
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Two days later, the Timberwolves did their best to shoo those vultures off for the time being by acquiring LaMelo Ball in a trade with the Charlotte Hornets.
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There are pink flamingos, then, but also many vultures circling the southern Adriatic.
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The only leaders more buffoonish and lethal than the fairground hucksters elected in our failing democracies are the omnipotent clowns of tyranny.
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Up until his first day of filming Jackass, Steve-O was a clown in nightclubs, cruise ships and at a flea-market circus.
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Because spotted skunks are relatively rare in California wildlife rehabilitation centers and in the surrounding area, there were no other skunks of his kind available to keep him company.
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The fall is an especially busy time for skunks.
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Clooney might be known as the joker of the two.
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Like any public hearing, there were a few jokers who had some strange outbursts, but the majority of the over a dozen speakers weren’t satisfied with Gower’s presentation and used their times to ask questions of the owners as to what has taken so long with this project.
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“Buzzard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buzzard. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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