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But the giant technology companies are now greedily raising as much money as they can from suckers — excuse me, investors — to keep spending on the AI arms race.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

Nothing of that great regional upheaval greedily foretold by the prophets of Western decline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

To the millions who greedily gobbled up scuttlebutt about her legendary meanness over the years, this is far from a news flash.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2024

They greedily eat the colony’s food, but shirk their own foraging duties, and can only hatch more parasites instead of workers when they reproduce.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2023

He ate quietly in the kitchen while Bailey and I read separately and greedily our own Street and Smith pulp magazine.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou


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