rapacious
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In such a socially competitive and professionally rapacious city, having a dinner party is intimidating, too much work, and very few people, even with boatloads of cash, end up hosting one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
"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
He’s similar to Adam Sandler’s rapacious jeweler in “Uncut Gems,” except that scoundrel contained his damage to the Diamond District and people as shady as him.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
But the cynicism that has always thrummed underneath his high-concept comedies — the dehumanizing algorithms, the rapacious finance system — is more prominent in this slim, potent novel.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2025
They often collected in prodigious, not to say rapacious, quantities.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing rapacious
"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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Grade 11, List 2
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"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
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