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Recent Examples of predator
Because of the intricacies of predator-prey relationships, impacts on individual organisms will ripple across the ecosystem, Grosell said.
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Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2026
Reviews have been positive for the thriller, which follows several residents of a small South Carolina town after a freak storm submerges the streets in enough water for marine predators to move in looking for snacks.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 17 Apr. 2026
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said protecting elderly people from predators who take advantage of their mental or physical infirmities is a priority of her office.
—Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026
Common insect predators in the home garden include lacewings, syrphid (flower or hover) flies, minute pirate bugs, ground beetles, and ladybeetles.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2026
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Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2026
Reviews have been positive for the thriller, which follows several residents of a small South Carolina town after a freak storm submerges the streets in enough water for marine predators to move in looking for snacks.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 17 Apr. 2026
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said protecting elderly people from predators who take advantage of their mental or physical infirmities is a priority of her office.
—Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026
Common insect predators in the home garden include lacewings, syrphid (flower or hover) flies, minute pirate bugs, ground beetles, and ladybeetles.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predator
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Not in terms of the scale of its sets—we’ll leave that to the giant staircase in The Queen of Versailles, or whatever is going on with the flying vampires of The Lost Boys—but in terms of the most tropes crammed into one two-act stretch.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2026
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While the film features a love triangle, Bella is notably the only human in the mix, while Edward is a vampire and Taylor Lautner's Jacob Black is a werewolf.—
Meredith Wilshere,
PEOPLE,
11 Apr. 2026
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The aquarium features hundreds of thousands of gallons of water and dozens of habitats filled with nearly 8,000 animals, including sharks, sea turtles, stingrays and jellyfish.—
Taylor Haught,
Kansas City Star,
21 Apr. 2026
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The shark is a pleasing stand-in for a big bossy grownup, easily fooled.—
Elise Broach,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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The moral injury from which hip-hop could not heal, in his mind, was the incursion of capitalism, the selling out, the culture-vulture turn that Bambaataa spoke to and spoke to freely.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
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Topa Topa is the first California condor to have lived in a zoo setting, and in honor of Earth Month, the Los Angeles Zoo is recognizing the 60-year-old vulture as a conservation icon.—
Julie Sharp,
CBS News,
21 Apr. 2026
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Mess with one wolf, mess with them all.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
26 Apr. 2026
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Drones, police, emergency workers, and veterinarians all joined the search, alongside community members whose footage documenting the wolf’s movements helped guide search teams.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Predator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predator. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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