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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Recent Examples of poaching

Noun

Behind the deaths of Norden’s family and the supporting characters, there are almost always traces of human violence — poaching and war. — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2026 The guardedness is understandable, as the threat of poaching is still everywhere. — Samantha Falewée, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026 Since early 2025, the March 23 Movement, a rebel group, has seized control of large parts of the park, fueling poaching, deforestation and trafficking. — Elodie Toto, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026 The Cruz-Cantwell bill would tighten restrictions on athlete pay and transfers, bar in-season coach poaching, and dangle antitrust exemptions before Power Conference schools willing to pool media rights with smaller colleagues. — Chris Park, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026 Remove the skin for recipes that require poaching, steaming, or slow-roasting, which will result in soft, gummy skin. — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2026 Clouded leopards are native to South and Southeast Asia and classified as vulnerable due to severe habitat loss and poaching. — Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026 Boiling or poaching are considered the healthiest ways to cook eggs, while roasting or grilling is best for chicken. — Lindsay Curtis, HEALTH, 22 Aug. 2026 Their primary threats are habitat loss and poaching, and wild populations have declined by at least 80 percent over three generations. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 July 2026

Verb

Dakota Jordan of Lander, who was found guilty of poaching deer, elk, and moose since at least 2021, now owes the state $18,000 in restitution. — Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 6 Nov. 2026 Netflix has hired Roberto Stanichi as its vice president of consumer products and experiences, poaching him away from his role as Mattel’s chief marketing and brand officer. — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 5 Nov. 2026 African elephants are critically endangered due to issues like poaching and the ivory trade. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2026 Decimated by poaching throughout the 1970s and 80s due to demand in Asia and the Arabian Peninsula, wild black rhino populations had dropped by 96 percent in the mid 90s. — Samantha Falewée, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026 The filing is the latest move in a fight that began earlier this year, when Apple sued OpenAI for allegedly poaching staff who took confidential information to OpenAI’s hardware division. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026 The conservancy is currently working to release a group of ploughshare tortoises bred there after the species was close to extinction because of poaching. — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026 Authorities have been investigating Javan rhino poaching networks, with members having confessed to killing 26 rhinos in Ujung Kulon National Park between 2019 and 2023. — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2026 Companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic are competing directly against mathematicians (and poaching many of them) to quickly prove theorems, while putting little effort into writing clear papers to explain those results or put them in context. — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for poaching

Noun

In addition, the probe is looking at people tied to the company, like Alice Huang, and at whether China recruited her to spy and assist the smuggling of AI chips into the country.

— Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 10 Nov. 2026
No other deputies have been implicated in the drug-smuggling scheme, but the case brought scrutiny on Meiser’s unit and its interaction with inmates.

— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of smuggling

Noun

Claims of looting have also inspired closer examination of the trove of East and South Asian art objects donated to the museum in the late 1990s by the Alsdorf family.

— Kelley Engelbrecht, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2026
Najib has been behind bars since August 2022, when the Kuala Lumpur High Court upheld his graft conviction linked to a multibillion-dollar looting of the state investment fund 1MDB.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of looting

Verb

There was also the backlash against surveillance cameras and, simmering in the background, support among a majority of Americans for a ban on social media use by children under 16.

— Larry Downes, Harvard Business Review, 5 Nov. 2026
Here, goats nose through massive piles of garbage left uncollected for weeks in the simmering 90-degree heat.

— Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of simmering

Noun

After a few silent minutes at the now-still Locomotive Springs, there is a rustling.

— Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2026
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

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

One of the three Vallejo men considered suspects in the kidnapping and murder of Avtar Singh has been arrested, the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office said on Saturday.

— CBS News, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
So far, authorities have not identified the perpetrators of Almaraz’s kidnapping.

— Alfredo Peña, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 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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