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hunted

adjective as in pursued

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Melville, we are told, concluded that “the hunted whale cannot now escape speedy extinction.”

Arsenal have had their noses pressed against the window in the face of City and Liverpool's superiority in recent years but, for now at least, the Gunners are the hunted rather than the hunters.

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The song begins and ends with an intentionally primitive AI-generated voice saying, “This is how it feels to be hunted by something smarter than you.”

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Somewhere in New England, Reino Hayhanen was living under a new name, drinking too much, terrified of being hunted down by Soviet agents.

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"For me, the most terrifying part," he said, "was hearing how people were hunted while running for their lives; attacked simply for being black."

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

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