hunted

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Many show marks consistent with cutting, breaking, and processing, similar to the way animals were hunted and prepared for food.

From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2026

The officer was "being hunted down by our enemies, who were getting closer and closer by the hour," the president added.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

Naturalist Stephen Boyes believes massive elephants live undetected on a remote plateau in Angola; they’d be descendants of a giant pachyderm hunted and killed 70 years ago that now resides in the Smithsonian.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Iranians said they have seen security forces scramble for safe workspaces while hunted by Israeli jets and drones, taking over schools and sports facilities and civilian buildings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

The signers of the Declaration would then have been hunted down, tried, and executed for treason, and American history would have flowed forward in a wholly different direction.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis