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Recent Examples of poach
His plan is to pose as a Fish & Wildlife agent, there to question Catalina’s husband about poaching … and then what?
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Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
Driveline has become an innovation lab for baseball over the past decade, with teams regularly poaching its staff to augment their own sports science programs.
—Jared Weiss, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Sightings should be directed to the DNR's poaching hotline at 800-292-7800.
—Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 29 Sep. 2025
While Sarandos and Holland came through Netflix’s tech company origins, for the past decade, Netflix has been bringing in executives from traditional media — It even got sued by Fox for poaching.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 26 Sep. 2025
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Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
Driveline has become an innovation lab for baseball over the past decade, with teams regularly poaching its staff to augment their own sports science programs.
—Jared Weiss, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Sightings should be directed to the DNR's poaching hotline at 800-292-7800.
—Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 29 Sep. 2025
While Sarandos and Holland came through Netflix’s tech company origins, for the past decade, Netflix has been bringing in executives from traditional media — It even got sued by Fox for poaching.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 26 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poach
Verb
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Instead of gradually boiling into insanity, the film hits fever pitch hallucinations right away and quickly exhausts itself attempting to keep pace.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
11 Oct. 2025
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The abacá fibers are harvested three times a year, cut, stripped, dried and bundled before being boiled and pressed into sheets for shipping to Taiwan.—
Andrea Onate,
Footwear News,
9 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Add lima beans and summer squash, and continue to simmer for another 30 minutes.—
Stephanie Ganz,
Southern Living,
13 Oct. 2025
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While ongoing talks between Washington and Beijing had eased access somewhat, trade tensions were simmering ahead of the latest flare-up on Friday.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
12 Oct. 2025
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“Poach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poach. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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