bounty
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Weary of venomous snake bites, British authorities put a bounty on dead cobras — but this only incentivized locals to breed more of the snakes, in order to collect even more reward money.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
If El-Sayed makes it to Capitol Hill, the win will represent, by far, Piker’s most impressive bounty yet.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
New Mexico’s oil-and-gas bounty has helped build a $75 billion investment fund, sparking debate over what to do with the wealth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
But not all of California got the bounty of precipitation during that El Niño.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
The andys would specifically have to take up residence in Northern California, and the senior bounty hunter in this area, Dave Holden, would have to die or retire.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
He never saw protection of domestic manufacturing as a long-term policy but rather insisted that “continuance of bounties on manufactures long established must almost always be of questionable policy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Seeing these bounties during the season of giving is especially poignant for me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024
Come dinnertime at 5 p.m., its menu shifts to family-style meals, featuring a large seafood lineup with bounties from its live fish tanks.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
A lone fisher or group of happy fishers would go to the ocean, a river or lake, then haul in endless bounties of aquatic creatures.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2024
“And do they have our bounties, like, broken down on a price list?”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing bounty
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 19–24
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