depredation

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Noun
  • July 6, 2025: A large scale of destruction in Georgetown, downed trees show the aftermath of raging floodwaters in the South San Gabriel River.
    Hannah Parry Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
  • Regardless, the truck’s destruction eventually creates a bonding moment with Hank, Bobby, and the most reliable member of the elder generation that Hank knows: the memory of his old truck.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Lamm, Colossal’s CEO, told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria last month that the biotechnology Colossal develops will be used to help rescue animals on the brink of extinction as well as those that have already disappeared.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 9 July 2025
  • Within 150 years, the Moa was gone, hunted to extinction.
    David Bloom, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • The first half begins in Poland, where seven-year-old Jakob Beer is the sole member of his Jewish family to survive the Nazis’ brutal slaughter.
    Mia Barzilay Freund, Vogue, 7 July 2025
  • Jess remembers her first on-farm slaughter years ago when a female spooked and tore through the woods.
    Bennet Goldstein, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • Orlov also pointed her to Voit's location, leading to the hospital massacre and her abduction of Voit and Dr. Ochoa.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 10 July 2025
  • The season traces the brutal machinery of empire: propaganda, collaborators, betrayal and the looming massacre of civilians on Ghorman, a peaceful planet crushed for daring to protest.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025
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“Depredation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depredation. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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