predation

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Recent Examples of predation On the flip side, uncontrolled access also left them at risk of disease and parasites and increased the likelihood of death or injury as a result of traffic or predation. Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025 This grim structure has varied with time, yet its fundamentals—economic predation, white supremacy—remain intact. Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025 Maxwell, his longtime girlfriend, has been accused of recruiting minors for the disgraced financier's predation. Savannah Kuchar, USA Today, 27 July 2025 Bagger spends the rest of the story delivering the angel to safety, guarding her against the dangers of No Man’s Land and from the predations of his fellow soldiers. Ben H. Winters, New York Times, 26 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for predation
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Noun
  • Federal wildlife agents confirmed the two depredation events, which took place Friday and Saturday, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Despite years of sitting on the sidelines, the United States has an opportunity to reassert itself in seeking to end the depredations of the junta and advance the cause of democracy in Myanmar.
    Dan Swift, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The spoliation inference becomes a presumption of guilt that's incredibly challenging to overcome.
    Lars Daniel, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
  • Last Friday, Damien Marshall and other King & Spalding attorneys on behalf of MSG filed a memorandum of law in opposition to Oakley’s motion for what are known as spoliation sanctions, meaning a punishment for failure to preserve relevant evidence.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Character progression is primarily handled through a persistent skill tree, crafting, and looting.
    Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The antifa movement was often blamed by police for the violence and looting that occurred in the aftermath of the murder.
    Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • First, the marauding, overlapping wing-backs drag markers away with decoy runs, opening up lanes for the attacking midfielders to exploit.
    Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Vikings, for example, used the extra daylight to sneak in a longer pillage sesh.
    Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 19 June 2025
  • Otherwise, illicit actors will continue to profit from their pillage.
    Justyna Gudzowska, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • Amid the pillaging of homes, Roman magistrates were likely sent to the city to prevent an anarchic type of existence, based on ancient literary sources the authors referenced in the study.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • As an alliance grew between senators and financial powers, public figures began profiting from real-estate speculation, slave trading, and overseas plunder—while masking their involvement.
    Zephyr Teachout, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Reparations, long proposed as the only measure proportionate to the scale of racial plunder, look increasingly like a political, economic, and legal non-starter.
    Idrees Kahloon, New Yorker, 28 July 2025

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“Predation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predation. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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