poaching
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He warned that slaughtering elephants for celebratory feasting could encourage poaching by creating the impression that killing elephants is acceptable when sanctioned by government.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Cristobal has made a specialty out of studying quarterbacks at other schools, and then poaching them for himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Top law firms are under pressure from all sides, with aggressive poaching of rainmakers, the pressure of artificial intelligence and less-loyal clients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Their natural range includes Ghana and the Ivory Coast, where the animals are threatened by both habitat destruction and poaching.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
His attempted poaching of Fermi succeeded only in provoking an outraged protest by Columbia to Bush, who forbade the move.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
That need has fueled bidding wars for proven portfolio managers and poachings such as Bhanji’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
Washington had no confirmed wolf poachings from 2017-2021.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2022
The agency knows that there are a number of undetected wolf poachings, but the numbers must be small because the total number of wolves keep increasing, Smith said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2022
He joined CNN in 2013, one of the earliest poachings by the network’s then-newly appointed president, Jeffrey A. Zucker.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018
He has a hundred heads to plan his poachings, a hundred eyes to spy the land, a hundred hands to set his snares and springes.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales by Ambrose Bierce
