harpies

plural of harpy
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as in predators
a person who habitually preys upon others having just started to make it really big in the music business, he found himself surrounded by a flock of harpies greedy for a piece of the action

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Recent Examples of harpies Think a front desk hewn from Dionysos marble and sconces in the shape of harpies. Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 11 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • In animal studies, TDN helped obese mice and musk shrews lose weight and become more responsive to insulin.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Operators such as Frontiers North Adventures will take you on a tundra buggy tour to glimpse the Arctic’s most majestic predators.
    Gaby Keiderling, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Although the climate is cold, birds have few predators there.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • All 500-year-old vampires will be able to watch Talamasca on their television sets in linear fashion on AMC.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In the two minute trailer (below), the death of someone close to a secret society charged with monitoring the world’s immortals, including witches and vampires, prompts the group to seek out a new recruit in the form of a young unsuspecting man, Guy Anatole (Nicholas Denton).
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The town serves as the backdrop for what many surrounding the production consider the creative high point of the season — an episode 5 spaghetti western side mission that involves lepers, eye-gauging vultures, and a train pulled by zombies.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Lawmakers need to close the loopholes now before the vultures pick it clean.
    Adam Kovacevich, Oc Register, 18 Aug. 2025

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“Harpies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harpies. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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