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Which animals are often portrayed as ravenous?

ravenous

[rav-uh-nuhs] / ˈræv ə nəs /


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Americans never needed to fall in love with tofu to become ravenous consumers of soy.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Instead, it is about the many smaller AI labs, cloud companies and enterprises that have ravenous demand for Nvidia chips but face high interest rates if they want to finance purchases of them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Armed with ferocious intent and a forward line ravenous for turnover ball, Mayo rattled Kerry during a period when they clawed back from seven points down to revive their hopes.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

San Francisco real estate agent Butch Haze of Compass has seen tech booms followed by ravenous bursts of homebuying since the first internet gold rush of the late 1990s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Suddenly, Ivy was ravenous for more of Robin’s story, for anything she could get.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake




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