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man-eating

[man-ee-ting] / ˈmænˌi tɪŋ /


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The film tells the story of a desperate university student applying for a shady part-time job that takes him deep into the woods where he encounters a ravenous, man-eating bear.

From Barron's • Oct. 25, 2025

In “Delicious in Dungeon,” a ragtag adventuring crew makes hot pot out of man-eating mushrooms.

From Salon • May 12, 2025

After graduating in 2019 with a degree in musical theater, he was cast as a puppeteer for the man-eating plant Audrey II in a production of “Little Shop of Horrors” at the Pasadena Playhouse.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2024

The idea of "man-eating plants" has long captured our macabre imaginations.

From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2023

It wouldn’t have been my first choice, given the man-eating sheep on the other side, but at the moment that looked better than this side of the chasm, and it gave me an idea.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan



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