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Like the eternally single Zelda, Astoria has laid eggs (unfertilized, of course) in a nest on the ground and refused to abandon them for days at a time, putting her in danger of starvation and at risk of predation from unleashed dogs.
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Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 23 Nov. 2025
Plants use electrical signals to coordinate responses to stimuli like touch, light, or predation.
—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 19 Nov. 2025
Studies in the Owyhees have indicated that the leading cause of death for mule deer and California bighorn sheep is mountain lion predation.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
According to a study recently published in the journal Global Ecology and Conservation, rat predation may cause enough damage to significantly threaten local bat populations.
—Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2025
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Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 23 Nov. 2025
Plants use electrical signals to coordinate responses to stimuli like touch, light, or predation.
—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 19 Nov. 2025
Studies in the Owyhees have indicated that the leading cause of death for mule deer and California bighorn sheep is mountain lion predation.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
According to a study recently published in the journal Global Ecology and Conservation, rat predation may cause enough damage to significantly threaten local bat populations.
—Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predation
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Keith Michael Lisa, 51, of Barnegat, was charged with possession of a dangerous weapon in a federal facility and depredation of federal property, Habba announced Tuesday.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
19 Nov. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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Everyone wanted to return home soon, to take refuge, amid fears of possible looting that failed to materialize.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
3 Jan. 2026
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For instance, before the signing of the ceasefire agreement, there was lots of looting of humanitarian aid, and these looters were backed up.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
2 Jan. 2026
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The Frenchman has been nothing like the same marauding threat since then.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2026
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The people who've made it out are telling us horror stories of mass killings, of rape and pillage of women and families.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Nov. 2025
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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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It was revealed during that trial that Low's plundering of the 1MDB sovereign wealth fund exceeded $4 billion.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 Nov. 2025
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Aron Solomon on how the Meta AI copyright decision made libraries sitting ducks for AI plundering.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 June 2025
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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
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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
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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 12 Jan. 2026.
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