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predatory

[pred-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / ˈprɛd əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /


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Predatory regimes can also offer some grace to failed icons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

As she wrote in her book "Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America":

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2024

Ms. Fox “identified only two possible sources” of the money: Predatory loans or senior citizens’ money fraudulently invested by Mr. Lewitt, an Americore investor and James Biden’s business partner.

From Washington Times • Dec. 19, 2023

Predatory viruses known as phages are among their most dire foes, infiltrating their cells to replicate and take over.

From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2023

Predatory gulls had found the pelt and the head in the rock crevice and their quarrelling filled the beach.

From The Beach of Dreams by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)




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