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 Synonyms for poaching
Verb
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Continue simmering for about three minutes.—
Michiko Tomioka, Contributor,
CNBC,
5 Jan. 2025 -
What emerged was a picture of active resistance, simmering anger and readiness for battle, if and when the time comes.—
Will Carless,
USA TODAY,
5 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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During deliberations, the jury focused almost entirely on the spoliation issue.—
Lars Daniel,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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The spoliation inference becomes a presumption of guilt that's incredibly challenging to overcome.—
Lars Daniel,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
Noun
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From Central America to West Africa, Greece to Indonesia, Clapp serves up a stirring picture of the deliberate and surprisingly profitable despoliation of one half of the planet by the other.—
Ian Volner,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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For that reason, the Abraham Accords lie in tatters - a despoliation very deliberately aimed at by Iran and Hamas via October 7.—
Melik Kaylan,
Forbes,
30 Sep. 2024
Noun
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Vikings, for example, used the extra daylight to sneak in a longer pillage sesh.—
Corey Buhay,
Outside Online,
19 June 2025
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Otherwise, illicit actors will continue to profit from their pillage.—
Justyna Gudzowska,
Foreign Affairs,
2 June 2025
Noun
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Outer space abduction wasn't the only topic of conversation for the performer.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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With a nod — a head butt, really — to Donald Trump and masked ICE abductions of undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizens, South Park was very relevant tonight.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Napster launched in 1999 as a digital peer-to-peer file-sharing platform that rapidly became a hotbed of music piracy.—
Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
6 Aug. 2025
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Such a ruling would significantly undercut one of the primary avenues utilized by the entertainment and media industries to curb piracy.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
30 June 2025
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“Poaching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poaching. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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