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That’s where market behemoths, who have been feasting on small competitors for decades, begin to hungrily eye one another’s total addressable markets.

From Barron's Dec. 4, 2025

“Can’t we just, for one night, just all be family?” he pleads, a bit too hungrily.

From Salon May 2, 2025

We begin by gliding into a mock aquarium with a shark-eating mosasaurus looking hungrily at us tourists.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2024

But his grandmother Elvire Desir chuckled as he hungrily gulped down his meal.

From BBC Mar. 21, 2024

The knights had been staying for a week, and Lancelot, listening hungrily to their Table news, was weakening every day.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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