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Recent Examples of predation
There is a vast tide of Imperial functionaries, from soldiers to bureaucrats to technicians, all conforming to survive the predations of the Emperor’s whims.
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Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 23 Apr. 2025
Germinate them in the shade and, when setting the bucket in a sunny exposure, cover with hardware cloth to prevent avian predations on the seedlings.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 17 Apr. 2025
So any trait that allows a relatively slow, soft-bodied animal to avoid predation has to be taken seriously.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
Read More: The extraordinarily large eyes of colossal and giant squid, for instance, mean that these enormous creatures can spot a sperm whale from hundreds of meters away, according to research, enabling the squid to avoid predation.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2025
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Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 23 Apr. 2025
Germinate them in the shade and, when setting the bucket in a sunny exposure, cover with hardware cloth to prevent avian predations on the seedlings.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 17 Apr. 2025
So any trait that allows a relatively slow, soft-bodied animal to avoid predation has to be taken seriously.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
Read More: The extraordinarily large eyes of colossal and giant squid, for instance, mean that these enormous creatures can spot a sperm whale from hundreds of meters away, according to research, enabling the squid to avoid predation.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predation
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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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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
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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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California was also a land of plunder, a place where rampant capitalism had merged with unrealistic fantasy.—
Andrew Moore,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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“Predation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predation. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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