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cannibal

[kan-uh-buhl] / ˈkæn ə bəl /


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I spend enough time sitting around the house worrying about what I said to someone in high school that may have hurt their feeling so bad it turned them into a cannibal.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2025

These cannibal dads had bulging bellies and a tendency to regurgitate the eggs when handled, the team reported in the American Naturalist.

From Scientific American • Oct. 1, 2023

When you make the most infamous movie ever to come out of a genre sometimes called the cannibal vomitorium, you’ve achieved true cinematic notoriety.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2023

“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” “Writer-director Sarah Polley could land a nod for her adaptation of the Mennonite consciousness-raising drama ‘Women Talking,’ while writers may appreciate Luca Guadagnino’s pitch-perfect cannibal road movie ‘Bones and All.’

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2022

As if she were seeing herself from some strange bird’s-eye view high above, Penelope watched herself give Edward Ashton the cannibal book.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood



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