cannibal
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I spend enough time sitting around the house worrying about what I said to someone in high school that may have hurt their feeling so bad it turned them into a cannibal.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2025
Early roles included a cannibal in a commercial for Hertz rent-a-car and an abominable snowman in the 1981 film “Caveman.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2023
These cannibal dads had bulging bellies and a tendency to regurgitate the eggs when handled, the team reported in the American Naturalist.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2023
In a recent television interview, Mr. Bolsonaro also argued that he was unfairly labeled a cannibal because of “a video from 30 years ago.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2022
That meant Edward Ashton had learned about the cannibal book by reading the letters of Agatha Swanburne.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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As a young man, by his account, he smuggled diamonds, oversaw coconut plantations, dynamited fish, captained schooners and hunted killer cannibals in the New Guinea jungle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Mencken remarked on the politician who had some cannibals among his constituents that “he would promise them missionaries for dinner.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
Twice last week, Mr. Biden suggested without evidence that his uncle had been eaten by cannibals.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
“They never found the body because there used to be — there were a lot of cannibals for real in that part of New Guinea,” Biden said, referring to the country’s main island.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2024
At one point a large barge nearly brushed up against us and I imagined we would be boarded by cannibals.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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