feed (on, upon, or off)

Definition of feed (on, upon, or off)next
as in to prey (on or upon)
to seize and eat (something) as prey the flycatcher is a bird that—as its name suggests—feeds on winged insects in midair

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  • Some observers suggest that seekers aren’t chasing hollow shortcuts online.
    Lucy Jones April 11, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The couple had spent the past decade sailing together, charting a life across open water — learning to scuba dive, chasing marine life and finding meaning in the quiet, in-between moments at sea.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026
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  • Vidro is charged with premeditated murder and stalking, per court records.
    Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Two days earlier, the 30-year-old had posted a video of McCann, 45, proposing to her as a lion stalked forward in the foreground.
    Jack Kubinec, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026
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  • Bringing back toys in cereal boxes Remember pawing through your cereal boxes, hunting for the plastic toy at the bottom?
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • But observational data showing that signature has been lacking, so Kearse and his colleague Yoshihiro Kaneko, a geophysicist at Kyoto University, hunted for it in the seismic and geodetic data registered by sensors placed close to 12 large earthquakes across the globe.
    Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2026
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“Feed (on, upon, or off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feed%20%28on%2C%20upon%2C%20or%20off%29. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.

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