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cannibal

[kan-uh-buhl] / ˈkæn ə bəl /


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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

When you make the most infamous movie ever to come out of a genre sometimes called the cannibal vomitorium, you’ve achieved true cinematic notoriety.

From New York Times Jan. 9, 2023

The Flanders and Swann song “The Reluctant Cannibal” tells the story of a young member of a cannibal tribe who refuses his dinner, insisting that “eating people is wrong.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

He battled oversize cannibals, outmaneuvered a witch and lost scores of men at every turn.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 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

The U.S. government’s record of service members missing in action does not attribute Finnegan’s death to hostilities nor does it indicate that cannibals were a factor.

From Seattle Times Jun. 5, 2024

Twice last week, Mr. Biden suggested without evidence that his uncle had been eaten by cannibals.

From New York Times Apr. 22, 2024

If water cannibals actually existed, Piper thought, this is what they looked like.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan



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