voracious
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From Salon • Oct. 17, 2025
Voracious army ants prey on many insect and vertebrate species and can travel about 1 kilometer a day, often in and out of dense forests that researchers cannot easily enter.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 5, 2023
Voracious eaters and rapid reproducers, Asian carp may outcompete native species for food, potentially leading to their extinction.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Voracious predators, swordfish can reach almost 1,200 pounds and grow 14 feet in length.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2021
Voracious, plunderous, all of them; like hounds, long hungry, got into a rich house which has no master, or a mere imaginary one.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Carlyle, Thomas
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