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rapacity

[ruh-pas-i-tee] / rəˈpæs ɪ ti /
NOUN
plunder
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Perhaps my cynicism about Mr. Witkoff’s curious mix of ingenuousness and rapacity is unfair.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025

But we had no illusion that Ricca, et al., would actually restrain their rapacity.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 25, 2020

Zuckerberg’s motto, “Move fast and break things”, was generally treated as a sign of youthful insouciance, not of galling rapacity.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2020

Despite her dark wardrobe and wolflike rapacity on stage, she has a softness in person.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2016

For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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