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Recent Examples of dog-eat-dog
With EVs being released and updated on a weekly basis, and manufacturers entering the dog-eat-dog environment, consumers sit home and are itching to buy something.
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Marc D Grasso, Hartford Courant, 16 Nov. 2024
In the dog-eat-dog world of Pierpoint, even his Hail Mary save isn’t enough to keep him in power.
—Nina Li Coomes, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
With its original plans to host 100, Silver says the event is now expected to field a crowd of 350, underscoring his increasing influence in the dog-eat-dog world of college basketball recruiting.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Howard, working from a script by Noah Pink, has a lot of plates to keep spinning, including the story's wild swings between outrageous outbursts, sometimes played for laughs, and dog-eat-dog tension.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2024
But there’s nothing stopping the surfer from hanging out in the parking lot up the cliff, an asphalt jungle with its own territorial, dog-eat-dog ecosystem.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
Recognized as a leading portrait paparazzo, Armstrong-Jones also freelanced in the dog-eat-dog world of Fleet Street newspapers.
—Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2024
Work-life balance in banking Really, achieving work-life balance in any industry is tough—let alone in the famously dog-eat-dog financial industry.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
However, when Emily secures a managerial position at their dog-eat-dog hedge fund, the power shift within the bullpen begins to splinter their romantic bliss.
—EW.com, 18 Jan. 2024
Marc D Grasso, Hartford Courant, 16 Nov. 2024
In the dog-eat-dog world of Pierpoint, even his Hail Mary save isn’t enough to keep him in power.
—Nina Li Coomes, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
With its original plans to host 100, Silver says the event is now expected to field a crowd of 350, underscoring his increasing influence in the dog-eat-dog world of college basketball recruiting.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Howard, working from a script by Noah Pink, has a lot of plates to keep spinning, including the story's wild swings between outrageous outbursts, sometimes played for laughs, and dog-eat-dog tension.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2024
But there’s nothing stopping the surfer from hanging out in the parking lot up the cliff, an asphalt jungle with its own territorial, dog-eat-dog ecosystem.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
Recognized as a leading portrait paparazzo, Armstrong-Jones also freelanced in the dog-eat-dog world of Fleet Street newspapers.
—Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2024
Work-life balance in banking Really, achieving work-life balance in any industry is tough—let alone in the famously dog-eat-dog financial industry.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
However, when Emily secures a managerial position at their dog-eat-dog hedge fund, the power shift within the bullpen begins to splinter their romantic bliss.
—EW.com, 18 Jan. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dog-eat-dog
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Complicating things is a Bucs defense that is not very opportunistic.Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2024
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The news suggests squirrels are much more opportunistic in their diets than previously realized.Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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Years after witnessing the brutal death of his mother at the hands of Rana Singh (Sikandar Kher), a corrupt cop, Kid (Patel), opts to lean into the eye-for-an-eye approach.Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2024
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There’s a corrupt teacher who, while not quite as downright evil as the serial killer that was Mark Jefferson in the first game, has done some pretty bad things in the pursuit of recognition.Ryan Easby, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2024
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But this act also gave people permission to go far enough—to acknowledge their righteous hatred of our depraved health-care system, and even to conjure something funny or silly or joyous out of that hate.Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
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So many iconic movies were made during this time, about this time, that its version of the city as dangerous, depraved, and degraded lingered for decades.David LaChapelle, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2024
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There was alarm at the prospect of hundreds of thousands of soldiers returning to the U.S. with such degenerate experience under their belts, and presumably spreading these habits among hitherto innocent American wives.Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Ammon did appear tempted to talk the walk in Portland, to become the Mormon cowboy philosopher king wandering a degenerate realm of an ailing Republic, but by now time was in extremely short supply.Matt Thompson, SPIN, 5 Nov. 2024
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Tiny shampoo bottles are no longer seen as cute freebies by many travelers but as profligate waste when refillable larger containers make more environmental sense.Carlton Reid, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Americans have long been among the world’s most profligate tippers.Virginia Postrel, Boston Herald, 2 Sep. 2024
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Whereas The Swimming-Pool Library transpires over one London summer — the last licentious gasp before AIDS— and The Line of Beauty spans the Thatcher era, Hollinghurst has lately been expanding his temporal horizons.Sam Worley, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2024
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Woodhull’s inability to counter the caricature of her as evil and licentious doomed her campaign.Allison Lange / Made by History, TIME, 6 Aug. 2024
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Their mission was supposed to take between eight and 10 days, but helium leaks in the capsule's propulsion system and degraded thrusters, which are important for re-entry, upended plans for bringing the astronauts back to Earth.Alex Sundby, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2024
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McCarthy’s harrowing post apocalyptic tale of a boy and his father making their way through a wasteland populated by the degraded remains of human civilization is brilliantly adapted by Larcenet.Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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This recipe takes a simple pumpkin cake and turns it into a wonderfully decadent dessert with a creamy, spiced filling and whipped topping with caramel, toffee bars, and nuts.Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 16 Dec. 2024
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Indulge in twenty-four gourmet biscotti bedecked with six decadent flavors.Nora Colomer, Fox News, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Dog-eat-dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dog-eat-dog. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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