rapacious

Example Sentences

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"The Moment" satirises the consequences of her hit 2024 album "brat", as rapacious record company executives and a film director played by Alexander Skarsgard seek to jump on the juggernaut.

From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026

Don’t blame rapacious owners for the loss of public trust.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 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