rapacious

Example Sentences

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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

This put her over the moon, but Elvis’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker—a rapacious music-industry buccaneer—insisted that she hand over half of her publishing rights.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

When their rapacious cousin Charles appears, hoping to find buried treasure in the house and romancing the “pink and white and golden” Constance, Merricat takes drastic action.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Even in the triumph of the worst, which is the age of robber barons and the age of rapacious capitalism and imperialism, even those things were being contested.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025

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

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson