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In recent books, French has borrowed elements of the western genre to explore corporate rapacity in the era of climate change and looked at life in a small Irish village with the ear to both insider and outsider.—
Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2025 -
Adjacent to the Gold Room was the Bravo Bazaar, a mall of real commercial rapacity.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
17 Nov. 2023
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The biblical voracity of these insects make them among the world’s most destructive pests.—
Gennaro Tomma,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2024
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Obviously though, this voracity for Sonnys doesn’t happen in a vacuum.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
8 July 2024
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Its voraciousness has threatened native populations of minks, muskrats, and river otters.—
Nathaniel Rich,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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The cause was classified as norovirus, a contagious virus that causes nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, and is commonly known as the stomach flu.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
3 Oct. 2025
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Adair, still in handcuffs, is then picked up from the wheelchair by several deputies and placed on his stomach on the bottom bunk in his cell, the KBI said.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
3 Oct. 2025
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Throws out hunger and with it, her period, which never returned.—
Romina Ruiz-Goiriena,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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Then, you guys are partnering with the Freestore Foodbank in October to fight childhood hunger?—
David Wysong,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
3 Oct. 2025
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According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, at least thirty-two Palestinians, including twenty-eight children, had died of malnutrition or starvation at Gaza’s hospitals.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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There is mounting concern over the malnutrition crisis in Gaza and its impact on civilians.—
Richard Hall,
Time,
5 Oct. 2025
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After more than 700 days of war, 455 Palestinians have died of malnutrition or starvation, including 151 children, the health ministry in Gaza reported on October 1.—
Soph Warnes,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
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Not from deliberate starvation, but from scarcity.—
Eli Sharabi,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Ravenousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ravenousness. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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