rapacious
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Environmental campaigners say rapacious forest and peatland destruction is the root cause of the fires.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
"The Moment" satirises the consequences of her hit 2024 album "brat", as rapacious record company executives and a film director played by Alexander Skarsgard seek to jump on the juggernaut.
From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026
Threaded with fiddle, piano and lead vocal by his son Jaime, “Nashville Skyline” is an elegy for Nashville’s rapacious gentrification as well as a love lost to time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
This put her over the moon, but Elvis’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker—a rapacious music-industry buccaneer—insisted that she hand over half of her publishing rights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Considering now, in contrast, the characteristics of Commodus, Severus, Antoninus Caracalla, and Maximinus, you will find them extremely cruel and extremely rapacious.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
Vocabulary lists containing rapacious
"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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Grade 11, List 2
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"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
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