as in depredation
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Recent Examples of predation
For example, barnacles secrete glycoproteins as a mechanical defense against predation.
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Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
The second- and third-most impactful factors were wolf predation and parasitism by carotid arterial worms (E. schneideri).
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 6 Nov. 2024
The benefits for China are less obvious, since several of Trump’s key advisers indulge in the magical realism of thinking that the United States can sacrifice its interests in Europe while somehow also shoring up deterrence against Chinese predations in East Asia.
—Peter D. Feaver, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024
In South Africa, a solitary orca nicknamed Starboard was observed eating a great white shark for the first time and the predation event was detailed in a study published in March in the African Journal of Marine Science.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Dec. 2024
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Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
The second- and third-most impactful factors were wolf predation and parasitism by carotid arterial worms (E. schneideri).
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 6 Nov. 2024
The benefits for China are less obvious, since several of Trump’s key advisers indulge in the magical realism of thinking that the United States can sacrifice its interests in Europe while somehow also shoring up deterrence against Chinese predations in East Asia.
—Peter D. Feaver, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024
In South Africa, a solitary orca nicknamed Starboard was observed eating a great white shark for the first time and the predation event was detailed in a study published in March in the African Journal of Marine Science.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predation
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That amounts to spoliation, the defense claims, and should result in the dismissal of the charges against Trump.—
Perry Stein,
Washington Post,
30 June 2024
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The West should also prepare for a Russia that inflicts even greater spoliation on a global scale—but not drive it to do so.—
Stephen Kotkin,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Apr. 2024
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These are curated from the titles that were most frequently picked up in the Criterion Closet, that magical room full of the company’s releases that visiting filmmakers and luminaries are invited to peruse and pillage.—
Vulture Staff,
Vulture,
15 Nov. 2024
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At only 6 years old, Esai Reed has endured three emergency evacuations from orphanages across Haiti as gangs pillage and plunder their way through once peaceful communities.—
Dánica Coto,
The Christian Science Monitor,
23 Sep. 2024
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Swiss zoologists, botanists, engineers, priests and nuns from missionary societies, merchants and rentier businesspeople, warlords and mercenaries ventured out to participate in plunder and looting as adjuncts or sidekicks of the stronger world powers and financiers.—
Percy Zvomuya,
Artforum,
1 Nov. 2024
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Major museums in the West devoted to the presentation and preservation of art objects have fitfully begun acknowledging their ties to histories of violence and plunder.—
Leslie Camhi,
The New Yorker,
11 Oct. 2024
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“Predation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predation. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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