cannibal
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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
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 we left our cannibal teen soccer players and their adult counterparts on “Yellowjackets,” things were getting deliciously deranged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 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
This, of course, was the reason she had kept the cannibal book in the first place.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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He battled oversize cannibals, outmaneuvered a witch and lost scores of men at every turn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
When Rodgers finally shows up, Hart turns on the charm, lets slip that he doesn’t actually like the show, and pitches the great composer on one about singing cannibals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
“They never found the body because there used to be — there were a lot of cannibals for real in that part of New Guinea,” Biden said, referring to the country’s main island.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2024
Not a few prehistoric finds have been attributed, evocatively if not accurately, to the work of ancient cannibals.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2023
At one point a large barge nearly brushed up against us and I imagined we would be boarded by cannibals.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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