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predacious

adjective as in meat-eating

adjective as in preying

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The picture tells the story of a young woman, Danae, who’s been locked in a high tower by her father to keep her away from predacious men.

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She feels shut out by the city’s predacious, moneyed tribes, battered by its “impenetrable shapes” and “fierce elbows.”

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They’re predacious, eating whatever they can get their grubby hands on.

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Now, four days later, Nukita warned us that a similarly predacious swarm of print and television reporters lay in wait for us in Kathmandu.

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Metastasis therefore requires the untethering of these bonds, to allow predacious cancer cells to migrate freely.

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