omnivore

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Recent Examples of omnivore Among our vast trove of vegan recipes, one of the highest rated is Becky Hughes’s vegan Caesar salad with crisp chickpeas, adored by vegans and omnivores alike. Melissa Clark, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025 Chickens are omnivores and want to eat bugs and worms alongside nutritious chicken feed. Pete & Gerry's Contributor, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025 Lives Lived: John Peck, known as the Mad Peck, was a cultural omnivore whose work as an underground cartoonist, artist, critic and disc jockey had a dry humor and an ornate eccentricity. German Lopez, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025 But being both a cultural omnivore and a frank truth-teller have served him well. Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for omnivore
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Noun
  • Examples from places such as Kenya, Belize, and China demonstrate that these adaptations are highly effective at reducing carnivore attacks.
    Jonathan C. Slaght, The Atlantic, 11 June 2025
  • Blend up a protein shake using carnivore protein, Greek yogurt, and whole milk.
    Jillian Kubala, Health, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • Answer: Shiz University What kind of animal is Dr. Dillamond?
    Kara Nesvig, Parents, 17 June 2025
  • The critically praised 2024 TIFF premiere — a survival action-thriller set after a plague has destroyed animal life on Earth — doesn’t open nationally until July 2.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • More on Groundhogs Moles Moles are insectivores, tunneling to find food.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 8 May 2025
  • The sparrowhawk is an aggressive bird of prey, adept at hunting and fighting, while the cuckoo’s nest targets are smaller birds and mostly insectivores.
    Nathan H. Lents, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2025

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“Omnivore.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omnivore. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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