rapacity

Example Sentences

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Perhaps my cynicism about Mr. Witkoff’s curious mix of ingenuousness and rapacity is unfair.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

Nor has there ever been a time when the link between our rapacity and our present misery has felt as clear.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2023

But we had no illusion that Ricca, et al., would actually restrain their rapacity.

From Washington Times • Dec. 25, 2020

If the investment sector needed a patron saint of killer rapacity, as clawed its way to record profits and stranglehold power in the middle years of the last decade, Gekko was it.

From Time • Sep. 23, 2010

With Great-Bridge fallen, nothing stood between their town and the rapacity of the enemy.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson