rapacious
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Environmental campaigners say rapacious forest and peatland destruction is the root cause of the fires.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
In such a socially competitive and professionally rapacious city, having a dinner party is intimidating, too much work, and very few people, even with boatloads of cash, end up hosting one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Threaded with fiddle, piano and lead vocal by his son Jaime, “Nashville Skyline” is an elegy for Nashville’s rapacious gentrification as well as a love lost to time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
Nowadays, they qualify as escapism confirming our assumptions about ridiculous, rapacious people, which is terribly fun.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2025
Those who commit themselves and are not rapacious should be honoured and loved.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
Vocabulary lists containing rapacious
"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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Grade 11, List 2
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"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
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