rapaciousness

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What better way to demonstrate the logical endpoint of mankind’s rapaciousness than to cast out little reminders of Ahab’s crew spearing and stripping scores of whales for profit and pleasure?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2020

This rapaciousness for data has certain benefits for consumers, but there is also something insidious about Amazon’s ability to continuously gobble up people’s information and turn it into profit.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2018

In the highlands, Holger Vera, the farmer, stands amid a grove of orange trees, pineapple plants and other crops, lamenting the rapaciousness of the local rodents.

From Scientific American • Nov. 1, 2017

The rapaciousness alone is enough to give one pause: Seriously, don’t we pay former presidents enough?

From Washington Post • May 8, 2015

Her rapaciousness engaged her to give endless disturbance and interruption to commerce.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by Hume, David