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rapacious

[ruh-pey-shuhs] / rəˈpeɪ ʃəs /


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"The Moment" satirises the consequences of her hit 2024 album "brat", as rapacious record company executives and a film director played by Alexander Skarsgard seek to jump on the juggernaut.

From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026

Parkanyi vets every submission, weeding out couples who appear rapacious for money, or those who demand a specific type of foreigner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

Nowadays, they qualify as escapism confirming our assumptions about ridiculous, rapacious people, which is terribly fun.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2025

There’s only one thing worse than being exploited by rapacious capitalists and that’s not being exploited by them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

They often collected in prodigious, not to say rapacious, quantities.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson