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food chain

noun as in feeding relationships among organisms

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These microscopic organisms produce a large share of the planet's oxygen and form the base of the ocean food chain.

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After mulling things over, I felt I wanted to change my choice but when I called back I was told by another representative presumably higher up the food chain that this was not so.

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The popular Mexican food chain’s results, released late Wednesday, weren’t bad per se: Earnings and revenue matched Wall Street’s forecasts.

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The popular Mexican food chain’s results, released late Wednesday, weren’t bad per se: Earnings and revenue matched Wall Street’s forecasts.

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Middlemen, known as forwarders, are increasingly hired by lenders to oversee the repossession process, pushing the companies that actually find and recover cars farther down the food chain, shrinking their profit margins.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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