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cannibal

noun as in person who eats human flesh

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When Rodgers finally shows up, Hart turns on the charm, lets slip that he doesn’t actually like the show, and pitches the great composer on one about singing cannibals.

As they do so, like Sara, seeking a “defining moment” they might morph into news cannibals.

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In total, the American people, and their ability to live full and meaningful lives, are being gobbled up by what political theorist Nancy Fraser describes as “cannibal capitalism.”

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He even had cannibal fantasies about eating children.

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We don’t know what’s happening in the rest of the world but here in this rural stretch of Canada, hungry cannibals are hunting people in the woods.

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