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Recent Examples of predation
Deforestation, overgrazing, droughts, predation by wild dogs and other threats loom over the future of this eccentric animal.
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
In this case, the hyena’s predation on goats led to its tracking and eventual death.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2025
The result is an assemblage of sorts where blue-footed boobies, coral reefs and even bat guano play a leading role, illustrating the ways nonhuman actors and their attendant ecologies have survived human predation.
—Elizabeth Rush, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
To do otherwise would leave Ukraine permanently subject to Moscow’s predation and coercion—and hand a victory not only to Russia but to China, Iran, and North Korea, all of which are backing Russian aggression.
—Charles A. Kupchan, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
In this case, the hyena’s predation on goats led to its tracking and eventual death.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2025
The result is an assemblage of sorts where blue-footed boobies, coral reefs and even bat guano play a leading role, illustrating the ways nonhuman actors and their attendant ecologies have survived human predation.
—Elizabeth Rush, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
To do otherwise would leave Ukraine permanently subject to Moscow’s predation and coercion—and hand a victory not only to Russia but to China, Iran, and North Korea, all of which are backing Russian aggression.
—Charles A. Kupchan, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predation
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An attorney who allows a client to continue using their phone risks spoliation as normal usage can overwrite or erase crucial data.—
Lars Daniel,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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That amounts to spoliation, the defense claims, and should result in the dismissal of the charges against Trump.—
Perry Stein,
Washington Post,
30 June 2024
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These are curated from the titles that were most frequently picked up in the Criterion Closet, that magical room full of the company’s releases that visiting filmmakers and luminaries are invited to peruse and pillage.—
Vulture Staff,
Vulture,
15 Nov. 2024
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At only 6 years old, Esai Reed has endured three emergency evacuations from orphanages across Haiti as gangs pillage and plunder their way through once peaceful communities.—
Dánica Coto,
The Christian Science Monitor,
23 Sep. 2024
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And two, even for the plunder of a smash and grab, that seems a sloppy hiding place.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2025
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While in Africa, Suchet visits Kimberley, the site of diamond mines (and where Rhodes founded the De Beers diamond company), and the plunder and extraction are so clear.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Predation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predation. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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