dog-eat-dog
Example Sentences
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“JUCO is … a dog-eat-dog world. So I think that kind of heightened everything and the sense or urgency to learn it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2025
He just wanted to play, so he pushed on in what he's called the dog-eat-dog world of professional rugby, disastrously as it turned out.
From BBC • Sep. 22, 2023
It’s a dog-eat-dog, survival-of-the-fittest environment that has left schools scrambling to maintain their relevance in a collegiate world already uprooted by the Name, Image and Likeness revolution and transfer portal upheaval.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 30, 2022
The strong are not safe either in that kind of dog-eat-dog world — they are at risk from each other.
From Salon • Jun. 12, 2022
Life on the streets was a dog-eat-dog world.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
