as in shark
an aggressive and fiercely determined person
even the best defense can't keep that tiger from scoring
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Recent Examples of tiger
Puma has filed a notice of opposition against his apparel and sneaker company Sun Day Red over its logo, arguing the company’s tiger symbol looks too much like Puma’s logo.
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Alex Sherman, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2025
Still, her days of glitter and sequins are going, going, gone, heading for the dark cavern where Siegfried, Roy and their tigers sleep for eternity.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
Quantify the cost and measure the outcomes, creating a template for future projects and perhaps even a tiger team to manage, measure and drive these projects.
—Joel Scutchfield, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
The tiger unleashes a fierce roar and digs its claws into you as the A.S.P.C.A. volunteer laughs and laughs.
—Kathryn Kvas, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2024
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Alex Sherman, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2025
Still, her days of glitter and sequins are going, going, gone, heading for the dark cavern where Siegfried, Roy and their tigers sleep for eternity.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
Quantify the cost and measure the outcomes, creating a template for future projects and perhaps even a tiger team to manage, measure and drive these projects.
—Joel Scutchfield, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
The tiger unleashes a fierce roar and digs its claws into you as the A.S.P.C.A. volunteer laughs and laughs.
—Kathryn Kvas, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tiger
Noun
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Megalodon teeth once belonged to the largest predatory shark ever to exist and can stretch over seven inches from top to bottom.—
Terry Ward,
Outside Online,
19 Jan. 2025
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In August, three former employees of the aquarium came out as whistleblowers, alleging that a culture of negligence and poor facilities management led to the starving deaths of two sharks and the likely suffocations of dozens of other animals at the SeaQuest aquarium.—
Cody Copeland,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Those fish can include barracuda, moray eel, sea bass and others.—
Nathan Diller,
USA TODAY,
10 Jan. 2025
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Here, visitors can observe American kestrels, barracudas, Goliath groupers, and even rehabbing turtles at the Sea Turtle Care Center.—
Trudy Haywood Saunders,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Dec. 2024
Noun
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In the end, dictators tap into something essential in human nature—the deference before a bully.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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Breathing fire Angry, vengeful, paranoid, a remorseless bully: These are trademark Carollo traits, according to city employees, two of his daughters, citizens who have argued with him and former allies double-crossed by him.—
Linda Robertson,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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On April 20, 1990, in the 2200 block of North Drake Avenue on the Northwest Side, Cruz, a Clemente High School student, was shot to death and also attacked by a pit bull, according to court records and Tribune archives.—
Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Jan. 2025
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Yves — model, singer and activist — poses with his foster pit bull Banjo in his studio apartment in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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These early dinosaurs were also initially vastly outnumbered by their reptile cousins–a group of enormous crocodile ancestors called the pseudosuchians and pterosaurs who grew to the size of fighter jets.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
23 Jan. 2025
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Simultaneously, Israeli airstrikes destroyed multiple military installations, including fighter jets and weapon caches across Syria.—
Hadeel Al-Shalchi,
NPR,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Tiger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tiger. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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