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Karen Warkentin Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Learning by embryos and the ghost of predation future
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Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024
As some politicians have declared, only by defending the EU’s external borders with fences, walls, and robust policing can the bloc protect itself from future acts of predation.
—Kelly M. Greenhill, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
The first major public expression of this ferment came with the 1919 May Fourth Movement, when Chinese intellectuals demonstrated not only against the predations of European great powers but also in favor of science and democracy at home.
—Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2022
Such deals could open traditional communities to predation, federal attorneys said in a March meeting, and were void without government authorization.
—Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
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Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024
As some politicians have declared, only by defending the EU’s external borders with fences, walls, and robust policing can the bloc protect itself from future acts of predation.
—Kelly M. Greenhill, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
The first major public expression of this ferment came with the 1919 May Fourth Movement, when Chinese intellectuals demonstrated not only against the predations of European great powers but also in favor of science and democracy at home.
—Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2022
Such deals could open traditional communities to predation, federal attorneys said in a March meeting, and were void without government authorization.
—Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
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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 30 Dec. 2024.
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