cutthroat
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He had survived bandito ambushes and cutthroat plots, shipwrecks and crash-landings and high-sea duels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
A large domestic market and cutthroat competition helped accelerate China’s industrial upgrading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Challenging conditions in China -- where a sluggish economy and cutthroat competition have hit automakers -- drove the result, BMW said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
And that is turning what historically has been a cutthroat, cyclical business where price competition is fierce into something much more stable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Alone in the waiting area, Roy dug through a stack of magazines until he found an issue of Outdoor Life that had an article about fishing for cutthroat trout in the Rocky Mountains.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
Screenwriter Tony Gilroy, making his directorial debut, wisely subverts the native charisma of star George Clooney, whose portrayal of a man coming undone among Manhattan cutthroats stands as the finest of his career.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2018
Because their numbers are not replenished from hatcheries, only catch-and-release fishing, using barbless hooks, is allowed when fishing for seagoing cutthroats.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2017
The Park Service and Game and Fish are both committed to preserving native species such as cutthroats, Burckhardt said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 6, 2016
Battleground was planted with 1,813 trout on May 22; Goose got 1,500 half-pound trout, 417 cutthroats averaging 1.5 pounds, and 2,700 rainbows averaging two-thirds of a pound apiece.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2013
The fish were only seven or eight inches long, and when Joe was young they were all beautiful native cutthroats.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
