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Recent Examples of carnivorous
Keepers discovered the furry, carnivorous marsupial was missing from her enclosure at Paradise Country wildlife park on Queensland's Gold Coast on Tuesday morning.
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CBS News,
4 June 2026
In another stroke of luck, the site has remained almost untouched thanks to the nonprofit Meadowview, which bought the surrounding land to preserve a rare carnivorous plant, the purple pitcher, in its natural habitat.
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Devorah Lauter,
ARTnews.com,
26 May 2026
The finding challenges the usual image of carnivorous dinosaurs as constantly fast-moving predators and instead offers a glance at their slower day-to-day behavior.
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Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
25 May 2026
My daughter, enjoying her college graduation travel gift with me, loved the snorkeling and beach resort time but seemed a bit anxious about encountering huge carnivorous lizards in the forest.
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Craig Stanford,
Big Think,
7 May 2026
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CBS News,
4 June 2026
In another stroke of luck, the site has remained almost untouched thanks to the nonprofit Meadowview, which bought the surrounding land to preserve a rare carnivorous plant, the purple pitcher, in its natural habitat.
—
Devorah Lauter,
ARTnews.com,
26 May 2026
The finding challenges the usual image of carnivorous dinosaurs as constantly fast-moving predators and instead offers a glance at their slower day-to-day behavior.
—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
25 May 2026
My daughter, enjoying her college graduation travel gift with me, loved the snorkeling and beach resort time but seemed a bit anxious about encountering huge carnivorous lizards in the forest.
—
Craig Stanford,
Big Think,
7 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carnivorous
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The goal is gentle smoke and indirect heat rather than aggressive flames.
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Right now, the multi-trillion-dollar global apparel industry is undergoing an aggressive technological shift, adopting artificial intelligence as a production standard rather than an experimental pilot.
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The Yellow Death has disfigured the population, and soldiers in white-and-red tunics serve the savage Duke of Tviot.
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Josefowicz, in her decathlon of a performance, brought Ligeti’s savage discontinuities to the surface.
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At the same time, vaccination rates have declined, worrying experts that more people could become vulnerable to this potentially deadly but preventable infection.
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The suspect, who has not yet been identified by police, was arrested in connection with the deadly shooting of 22-year-old Nasir Majied on Friday, June 5.
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The march stems from the violent 1969 police raid of the Stonewall Inn that catalyzed the gay rights movement at a time when many people who were LGBTQIA+ hid their identity.
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Over the years, Hall has responded to emergencies ranging from domestic violence calls to serious violent crimes.
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Speaking of, Ross asked Janssen about the steamy bathhouse scene during which Xenia and Bond face off in an encounter that is both flirty and ferocious.
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In 2018, a blaze east of Athens moved with ferocious speed, killing more than 100 people.
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At the same time, its flowers attract beneficial predatory insects, such as ladybugs and parasitic wasps, that naturally hunt harmful garden pests.
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Years of insurgency and predatory armed gangs have devastated northern Nigeria, displacing millions.
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The 2023 arrest of her then-10-year-old cousin for urinating in public brought fierce condemnation.
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For a party that prides itself on diversity, the clashes have exacerbated fierce debates over identity politics and long-standing rifts between progressives and moderates.
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Young women being preyed upon and seduced by rapacious Hollywood producers, stars and studio heads is a tired cliché, but like all clichés, it is based on reality.
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Not the timeless myths of rapacious, demonic women or saintly self-sacrificial mothers.
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“Carnivorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carnivorous. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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