Thesaurus results for POACHING

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noun

as in smuggling

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poaching

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verb

present participle of poach

as in boiling

to cook in a liquid heated to the point that it gives off steam poaching fish in a stock flavored with white wine

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Noun

In the OpenAI case, the WSJ suggested that Apple might be motivated to bring the lawsuit just to slow down either OpenAI’s device development or the poaching of its employees. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026 Today, most poaching in the area is done not for elephant tusks or rhino horn, as in the past, but for bushmeat, particularly zebra, buffalo, and giraffe. — Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026 Recently, though, Disney has begun making moves — including the poaching of Zameczkowski — that suggest its pace of activity in APAC could be quickening. — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 22 June 2026 The school also runs a cooking basics program that covers mise en place, knife skills, soup and stock production, sauce making and a wide range of cooking methods — roasting, grilling, sautéing, pan-frying, stir-frying, braising, poaching and steaming. — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 9 June 2026 That same basics camp walks students through roasting, grilling, sautéing, pan-frying, stir-frying, braising, poaching and steaming. — Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 9 June 2026 Braising, steaming, roasting, sautéing, poaching, or grilling all work great. — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2026 The animal's population has been heavily impacted by habitat loss, poaching and disease, such as Ebola. — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 28 May 2026 Viola recommends boiling, poaching, or low-heat scrambling your eggs to preserve their micronutrients. — Mykenna Maniece, Vogue, 8 May 2026

Verb

Rudi Voller, West Germany vs Argentina, 1986 The Germans draw level at 2-2 with a great piece of poaching from Voller after Lothar Matthaus wins a header from a corner. — Adam Hurrey, New York Times, 17 July 2026 Developing people takes longer than poaching them, and in a busy season, the temptation to skip it is enormous. — Brad Strawbridge, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026 Authorities said the poaching suspects were apprehended after wildlife officers found them while on night patrol. — Seamus Bozeman, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026 The new species could help prevent poaching and is detailed in a study published today in the journal Communications Biology. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 July 2026 While Mendoza led the team to the NLCS as a rookie manager in 2024, the Mets failed to make the playoffs last year after poaching Juan Soto from the Yankees. — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 26 June 2026 This is due in part to some samples originating from lands under tribal authority, and in part to specific population information that could put species at risk of poaching. — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 25 June 2026 And the job of those rangers is to ensure that there isn't any contact at all because there is some level of poaching. — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 6 June 2026 Nashville Predators chairman Bill Haslam had just completed a coup Tuesday, poaching the general manager of a division rival. — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 3 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for poaching

Noun

The area is also often used for smuggling of wildlife and small arms, the report says.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 July 2026
But after the town’s economy cratered with the closure of the local sardine cannery, Rangel, anxious to provide for the couple’s 1-year-old daughter, agreed to take a smuggling job.

— Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026

Definition of smuggling

Noun

Efforts to prevent looting had been made even before the formation of the MFAA.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 July 2026
President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act after a generation of lobbying by educators and scientists who wanted to protect sites from commercial artifact looting and haphazard collecting by individuals.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 July 2026

Definition of looting

Verb

Over the past week, the conflict between the United States and Iran has gone from a simmering tit-for-tat to something that much more resembles all-out war.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
That decision, in turn, might be due to a simmering tensions connected to a session organized the year before.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 17 July 2026

Definition of simmering

Noun

Upon arrival, the constant chime of notifications stops, replaced by the sounds of Gulf waves, the rustling of marsh grasses, and the calls of shorebirds.

— Gabi De la Rosa, Southern Living, 19 May 2026
From the anti-Trump side, meanwhile, the American people hear a nervous rustling of vague doubts.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2026

Definition of rustling

Noun

In Nolan’s telling, his deceit and plundering portend the collapse of the Bronze Age—a foreboding warning about greedy, fading empires that feels a little too relevant.

— Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 16 July 2026
Some have traveled farther as part of colonial-era collections — as far as the British Museum — and been returned; a story unto itself about the plundering of the natural world in the age of empire, and institutions reckoning with their inheritance.

— Tom Page, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026

Definition of plundering

Noun

People in northwest Nigeria are caught between regular attacks by bandit groups who specialize in kidnapping for ransom and Islamist militants who have been expanding their territory.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026
Helen is the queen of Sparta whose kidnapping by the Trojans ignited the Trojan War in the first place.

— Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026

Definition of kidnapping

Noun

If his decades-long track record is any indication, Sanders would be inclined to make excuses for our adversaries and look on the bright side of their repression and rapine.

— Rich Lowry, National Review, 25 Feb. 2020
There is no question about the general philosophy that underlay this great act of public pillage and economic rapine.

— Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Mar. 2013

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