hunted

Example Sentences

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Smaller, mobile groups that hunted opportunistically were increasingly being replaced by larger, more coordinated groups.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

Staff who previously hunted for iconoclastic founders with promising startups were sent to find AI data-center sites, the energy needed to power them and the chips to run them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Humans once hunted humpbacks to the edge of extinction, but their numbers have rebounded in recent decades.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Settlers regarded the massive predators as a serious threat to people and livestock and hunted them aggressively, driving the population in the contiguous U.S. to fewer than 1,000 animals.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

Armed with real numbers, Galton could now find the elusive “law of heredity” that he had hunted so ardently for decades.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee