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Recent Examples of dog-eat-dog
But social mobility in this dog-eat-dog environment comes at a high price, one the benevolent Rastignac is initially unwilling to pay.
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Big Think,
29 Apr. 2026
Halton described himself as an explosive play-maker who can be a dog in a dog-eat-dog world.
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Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
25 Apr. 2026
People sometimes forget that World War II was a dog-eat-dog struggle for resources – oil and uranium but also dozens of other materials, everything from rubber to copper.
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Thomas Robertson,
Fortune,
17 Feb. 2026
Rhyme schemes become secondary to dog-eat-dog dogma.
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Pitchfork,
10 Dec. 2025
Stability and predictability would be the exception, not the norm, in a dog-eat-dog world.
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Alexander Stubb,
Foreign Affairs,
2 Dec. 2025
Joy radiates in the room, and a dog-eat-dog environment where people cut each other off is replaced by open collaboration.
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Barry Levitt,
Time,
19 Sep. 2025
Each episode is built around a tense, dog-eat-dog hunt, where each player becomes either a Predator or Prey.
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Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
2 July 2025
Ditch the dog-eat-dog mentality and figure out how to combine their apocalyptic gifts against a common enemy.
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Natalie Zutter
june 30,
Literary Hub,
30 June 2025
Big Think,
29 Apr. 2026
Halton described himself as an explosive play-maker who can be a dog in a dog-eat-dog world.
—
Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
25 Apr. 2026
People sometimes forget that World War II was a dog-eat-dog struggle for resources – oil and uranium but also dozens of other materials, everything from rubber to copper.
—
Thomas Robertson,
Fortune,
17 Feb. 2026
Rhyme schemes become secondary to dog-eat-dog dogma.
—
Pitchfork,
10 Dec. 2025
Stability and predictability would be the exception, not the norm, in a dog-eat-dog world.
—
Alexander Stubb,
Foreign Affairs,
2 Dec. 2025
Joy radiates in the room, and a dog-eat-dog environment where people cut each other off is replaced by open collaboration.
—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
19 Sep. 2025
Each episode is built around a tense, dog-eat-dog hunt, where each player becomes either a Predator or Prey.
—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
2 July 2025
Ditch the dog-eat-dog mentality and figure out how to combine their apocalyptic gifts against a common enemy.
—
Natalie Zutter
june 30,
Literary Hub,
30 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dog-eat-dog
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Unemployment remains above 30%, making migrants easy political targets for frustrated communities and opportunistic actors.
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To represent so many things to so many people might seem shallow, if not blithely opportunistic.
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In reality, leaders on both sides are corrupt and always on the edge of disaster.
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My career actually focuses on bonding and preventing taxpayers from being on the hook for the failures of bankrupt and corrupt companies.
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Jacobs collapses the distance between the nation’s lofty ideals and its depraved slave regime.
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But that doesn’t mean that artificially sugared sodas, retail consumption, or social media are depraved, worthless activities akin to the cardinal sin of sloth or the tragic spiral of heroin addiction.
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After delivery, the umbilical arteries constrict and degenerate.
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As her life begins overlapping with the events of the film, she’s confronted with her own degenerate desires, as the Nazis would call them.
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That wasn’t its only subject; comedy and power and misogyny and creativity and intergenerational conflict and work ethic and, especially in its last few seasons, the debased state of the entertainment industry were all richly explored through lines.
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And this has lent Margot a debased sort of celebrity.
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His dissolute, debauched lifestyle was due for a reckoning and could have sunk into tropes of the season’s theme.
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Firstman stars as Peter, a debauched millennial aging out of a New York scene that never cared about him as a person in the first place.
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Avoid the impulse to label someone as cheap or profligate after one or two dates, AARP advises.
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The measure is clearly a state limit on profligate local governments’ ability to raise taxes.
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Despite being outnumbered and outmaneuvered, Washington maintained order among his demoralized troops.
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The Democratic Party has funneled all the fury of its demoralized and humiliated voter base into a focal point centered on immigration policy.
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