feeds (on, upon, or off)

present tense third-person singular of feed (on, upon, or off)
as in stalks
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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  • Black Hole stalks Chris, a popular girl who contracts the virus, and a stoner named Keith, who is in love with her.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2025
  • And at its climax, the Grabber, the franchise killer played by Ethan Hawke, gracefully stalks his victims on ice skates, ready to lop some heads with an axe.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • Los Angeles chases a repeat and a third championship since 2020 while Toronto arrives to the Fall Classic for the first time in 32 years.
    Tim Crowley, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • More money chases the same market, and some people start paying more.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025
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  • But while many hiring professionals are concerned about applicants using AI in the process, one leader actually hunts for talent using the tech in application rounds.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
  • That included a pair of hunters named Victor Travis and Raymond Burgess; on the show, Gein hunts them down and murders them with a chainsaw.
    JR Radcliffe, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
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  • Each participant had lost central vision in one eye due to dry AMD, which destroys light-sensitive macular cells over time.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
  • An arson fire destroys the 43-year-old Globe Theatre on March 8 (the arsonist was never caught, but a firebug had set several blazes in the park that winter).
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
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“Feeds (on, upon, or off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feeds%20%28on%2C%20upon%2C%20or%20off%29. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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