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"Cats depredate and scavenge a large fraction of the species present across the range available in the landscapes they forage in," the authors write.

From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2023

They then go out and depredate the country.

From Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O by Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett) Reed

Fire-breathing, venomous once, they no longer now depredate our Flocks and meadows and woods, fields of golden grain.

From Erotica Romana by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

At the close of the war of 1812-15, the Dey of Algiers, believing the British navy had utterly destroyed that of the United States, sent out his corsairs to depredate on our commerce.

From Harper's Young People, August 3, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

In his report for 1887 he pays his respects to our enemies from "the northern and eastern borders"—the same hand that has continued to depredate until this day.

From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various

Just before the harvest season, it became palpable that this field, then waving with wheat, was depredated upon to a wasteful extent by some unknown subjects of the animal kingdom.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various

Depredā′tion, act of plundering: state of being depredated; Dep′redator.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

It is a thing worthy of complaint when public charities, designed for the relief of the poor, are embezzled and depredated by the rich, and turned to the support of luxury and pride.

From From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman" by Henry Morley

Bull, now of Philadelphia, writes respecting the position of several boxes of minerals left in the Lyceum of Natural History, of New York, in 1822, which have, been sadly depredated on.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

"Herein we describe, to our knowledge, the first recorded instance of a Burmese python actively defending a nest and the first record of a bobcat depredating a python nest."

From Fox News ● Mar. 17, 2022

Trapping and relocating bears has been a first option when the Wyoming Game and Fish Department has dealt with depredating bears.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 18, 2020

“They are depredating our deer population, killing livestock and attacking family pets,” they said in the memo.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2017

But wildlife advocates and animal rights groups contend the response to depredating wolves has become too heavy-handed.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2010

The remainder of the tribe, instigated by the former chief, Osceola, repudiated the treaties, refused to remove, and soon after commenced depredating upon the whites.

From The Indian Question (1874) by Francis Amasa Walker