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Recent Examples of poach
Already, sharks face many threats in our rapidly shifting world, including habitat loss, fishery declines, poaching, and even impaired senses.
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Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
Meta’s next moves Meta, on the other hand, has carried out its own campaign to gain an edge over OpenAI, restructuring its AI division with a focus on building a superintelligence team and poaching key AI architects, including former OpenAI employees.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2025
After making a fortune in the real estate and hotel business, Hume started his own rhino farm, Buffalo Dream Ranch, in the early 2000s, when South Africa’s rhino poaching crisis was beginning to peak.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
Poaching crisis continues The arrests come as South Africa, home to 80% of the world's remaining rhinos, grapples with an ongoing poaching crisis.
—Dakota Bennett, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2025
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Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
Meta’s next moves Meta, on the other hand, has carried out its own campaign to gain an edge over OpenAI, restructuring its AI division with a focus on building a superintelligence team and poaching key AI architects, including former OpenAI employees.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2025
After making a fortune in the real estate and hotel business, Hume started his own rhino farm, Buffalo Dream Ranch, in the early 2000s, when South Africa’s rhino poaching crisis was beginning to peak.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
Poaching crisis continues The arrests come as South Africa, home to 80% of the world's remaining rhinos, grapples with an ongoing poaching crisis.
—Dakota Bennett, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poach
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How to hard boil an egg Let’s start with the basics.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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In communities without clean water, families often burn wood to boil contaminated water, contributing to both deforestation and emissions.—
Sivan Yaari,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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What the foreign minister’s role in the process would be was unclear, but the government of President Lee Jae Myung was trying to quickly contain simmering discontent in the country about how its nationals were being treated by US law enforcement.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
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And in workplaces across the country, stress continues to simmer under cultures that prize constant availability.—
Jennifer Jay Palumbo,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Poach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poach. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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