dog-eat-dog
Example Sentences
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“JUCO is … a dog-eat-dog world. So I think that kind of heightened everything and the sense or urgency to learn it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2025
It's worth noting that, even before the invention of streaming, the world of US chat shows was always a competitive, dog-eat-dog world.
From BBC • Jul. 18, 2025
It's easy to see how lying would be viewed as acceptable if you hold what the researchers describe as "the dog-eat-dog worldview where everyone does whatever is needed to get ahead."
From Salon • Oct. 20, 2022
“When they abandon multilateralism, everybody else abandons it and it becomes a dog-eat-dog world. And that’s the challenge.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2022
My high school friends would still have been whining over boyfriends and fighting for carhop jobs at the A&W. Their idea of a dog-eat-dog world was Beauty School.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
