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as in dodger
a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value
a card shark
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2
as in expert
a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field
a shark at calculus
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as in predator
a person who habitually preys upon others
being a new arrival in Hollywood, she was easy prey for the sharks in the movie business
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Recent Examples of shark
For roughly 370 million years, scientists believed large vertebrate predators ruled ocean ecosystems — first fish and sharks, then marine reptiles, then whales.
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Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
Already, there’s been an uptick in shark sightings and encounters, with the beach closed recently in Newport Beach and a fisherman hooking and releasing a great white off Manhattan Beach Pier.
—Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
The research suggests that warm-blooded fish species, which include great whites, shortfin makos and salmon sharks, burn about four times more energy than cold-blooded species and will increasingly be forced into cooler regions with less food.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
Aggressive behavior by the shark was observed, authorities said.
—Austin Turner, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
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Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
Already, there’s been an uptick in shark sightings and encounters, with the beach closed recently in Newport Beach and a fisherman hooking and releasing a great white off Manhattan Beach Pier.
—Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
The research suggests that warm-blooded fish species, which include great whites, shortfin makos and salmon sharks, burn about four times more energy than cold-blooded species and will increasingly be forced into cooler regions with less food.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
Aggressive behavior by the shark was observed, authorities said.
—Austin Turner, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shark
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Ukraine faces severe personnel shortages with around 200,000 military desertions and 2 million draft-dodgers, threatening its ability to sustain the war against Russia’s 2022 invasion.—
Kirsten Grieshaber,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
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Almost all other passengers dine at the Britannia Restaurant, and there’s also a buffet restaurant serving international cuisine, with options for vegans, vegetarians and dairy dodgers.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 Jan. 2026
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But as online marketplaces widen their delivery network across the country and social media marketing levels the playing field, direct-to-consumer, or D2C, brands are on the rise in India, according to experts.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
7 May 2026
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The head count at the consolidated headquarters went from around five hundred to just sixteen, eliminating many policy experts who had assisted field offices with difficult cases.—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026
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Was this how a predator self-vanishes?—
Chang-rae Lee,
New Yorker,
3 May 2026
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And always the Ryce family was there, front and center, holding each other up, in a national crusade to protect children from predators.—
Amy Driscoll,
Miami Herald,
3 May 2026
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Multi-functional furniture is the small-space cheat code When every square foot counts, every piece should earn its keep — ideally by doing two jobs at once.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Miami Herald,
30 Apr. 2026
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That’s basically the cheat code to any travel wardrobe.—
Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Apr. 2026
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Detailed look at 1814 British attack on our nation’s capital, with Denver Brunsman, associate professor of history at George Washington University, lecturer at Mount Vernon, and scholar of the American revolution and early American republic.—
Staff Report,
Baltimore Sun,
6 May 2026
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Whatever scholars might assume from the etymology, Morrison said the word’s origins reveal little about the Pharisees besides their existence as a distinct group.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
6 May 2026
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Beyond that, non-phantom, non-Dracula vampires aren’t terribly over-exposed in the Broadway genre.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
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Mariclare Costello, a lifetime member of The Actors Studio who recurred as the schoolteacher Rosemary Hunter on The Waltons and played a hippie vampire in the cult horror film Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, died April 17 in Brooklyn, her family announced.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Apr. 2026
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This new iteration was partly handled by Room40 label boss Lawrence English, who reconstructed the original master tapes and blended them with recent performances by Lockwood and Vanessa Tomlinson, who plays the gong.—
Joshua Minsoo Kim,
Pitchfork,
28 Apr. 2026
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Leaders of the gardens have been undergoing a master planning effort for more than a year in an effort to accommodate visitation of the botanical garden doubling to more than 300,000 people annually over the past decade.—
Ryan Gillespie,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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To call a musician a virtuoso can be double-edged.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
29 Apr. 2026
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In positioning Mollestad as an exploratory team player, its six tracks reveal her chops well beyond that of a showboating virtuoso.—
Joshua Minsoo Kim,
Pitchfork,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Shark.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shark. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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