depredation

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for depredation
Noun
  • Leave the innocents, the children, the ones who just want to live a simple life, out of the bombing and destruction.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2025
  • The result of these and other assaults, wrote Jed Kolko, a former undersecretary for economic affairs at the Commerce Department overseeing data operations at the Census Bureau and BEA, will include the destruction of trust in U.S. economic data.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Ars Technica: Populations of the tiger shark, the great white, and couple of other species have declined so dramatically that many are on the verge of extinction.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 20 June 2025
  • There are as many as 37 species of guitarfish, some of which are at higher risk of extinction than others.
    Peter Kyne, The Conversation, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Third, in the face of such facts, a deportation of Afghans back to Afghanistan would be nothing short of a slaughter.
    David Peduto, Baltimore Sun, 11 June 2025
  • His cases there included the successful prosecution — in a 25-month trial — of a Croatian general who ordered the slaughter of Muslim noncombatants.
    Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • Nearly 600 days after he was abducted by Hamas during the October 7 massacre, Edan Alexander returned home to New Jersey on Thursday to a deeply emotional homecoming.
    Efrat Lachter , Nate Foy , Julia Johnson, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2025
  • But in the decade since the massacre, the families and others have been troubled by other deadly attacks against people because of their race, ethnicity or faith.
    Deborah Barfield Berry, USA Today, 17 June 2025
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“Depredation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depredation. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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