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as in victim
a person or thing harmed, lost, or destroyed
he fell prey to nagging—but groundless—doubts about his wife's fidelity
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as in target
a person or thing that is the object of abuse, criticism, or ridicule
that woman has a sharp tongue, and her favored prey is her long-suffering husband
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Recent Examples of prey
The crew is being hunted by an organism that can inhabit anyone nearby and mimic its prey.
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Echo Apsey, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The playful creatures are prey to foxes, jaguars, and even at times humans, but tend to eat insects, plants, roots and smaller vertebrates, the zoo said.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Amazon and Apple’s stocks also fell prey to negative theories, Cramer said, but their shares eventually recovered.
—Julie Coleman, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
Parvati Shallow has once again devoured her prey.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
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Echo Apsey, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The playful creatures are prey to foxes, jaguars, and even at times humans, but tend to eat insects, plants, roots and smaller vertebrates, the zoo said.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Amazon and Apple’s stocks also fell prey to negative theories, Cramer said, but their shares eventually recovered.
—Julie Coleman, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
Parvati Shallow has once again devoured her prey.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for prey
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prey
Noun
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And the colors of the stone sometimes looked discordant—the quarries at Montjuïc had closed in 1957.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Then in the 1960s, Lake Burtnieks’s northern shore was used as a gravel quarry.—
Sarah Durn,
Popular Science,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The most successful so far comes from Tampa, where a circuit court judge in August reaffirmed a statewide injunction pausing DOAH hearings after a Hurricane Milton victim argued the company was violating his rights.—
Mario Ariza,
ProPublica,
15 Sep. 2025
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The motion is still pending, and families of the crash victims urged the court to reject it.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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Over the last three years both Teck and Anglo have been takeover targets for their mining rivals, Australia’s BHP and Swiss-based Glencore.—
Tim Treadgold,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The signatories — which included the likes of EV manufacturers Volvo and Polestar, as well as material suppliers, battery manufacturers and grid operators — said the introduction of the target had already triggered hundreds of billions of euros in new investment.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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No casualties have been reported.—
George Petras,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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For the new study, the scientists looked at something called the disaster database, a global list of disasters maintained by university researchers, to identify heat waves with significant casualties, economic losses and calls for international assistance.—
Julia Simon,
NPR,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Prey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prey. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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