flesh-eating
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Luke Abrahams, from East Hunsbury, Northampton, died on 23 January 2023 after also developing necrotising fasciitis, which is a type of flesh-eating disease.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026
A ban on imported cattle was implemented to stem the migration of a flesh-eating parasite.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025
Corman was the executive producer of this horror film about a mass of flesh-eating piranhas infesting a river.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2024
“A real in-the-flesh, flesh-eating poet who also happened to be a real black woman,” said the poet Terrance Hayes, introducing a volume of her selected works in 2019.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024
“These are flesh-eating horses, see? They like these conditions.”
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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