predatory
Example Sentences
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“The sequence of events, Smith’s prior statements to Plaintiff, and the circumstances of the hotel intrusion all point to a pattern of predatory behavior rather than an isolated incident.”
From Los Angeles Times
Within as little as three million years after the end-Permian mass extinction, the oceans supported complex food webs filled with predatory reptiles and amphibians.
From Science Daily
“I understand people want to make money, but I feel like this is so predatory.”
From Los Angeles Times
They are a discipline—an instrument that forces the true cost of dependency into corporate planning and counters predatory trade behavior.
Anything is better than plugging back into digital oblivion, where nothing but predatory, algorithmic evil awaits.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
