predator
Example Sentences
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Like prey worn down by a persistent predator, participants don’t collapse all at once; they give up gradually until the fight leaves the market altogether.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
Richardson has experience of unwanted predator attention, which she has waived her legal right to anonymity to share.
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026
The search began in 2019 in the Sahara Desert, where French geologist Hugues Faure had said he found a tooth belonging to the giant predator Carcharodontosaurus in the 1950s.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
High-resolution 3D scans of the Erythrobatrachus skull indicate it measured about 40 cm long when complete and belonged to a large-bodied predator with a broad head.
From Science Daily • Feb. 25, 2026
The car slowed to a creep after missing us, like a confused predator who’d overrun his prey.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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