bounty
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Weary of venomous snake bites, British authorities put a bounty on dead cobras — but this only incentivized locals to breed more of the snakes, in order to collect even more reward money.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
If El-Sayed makes it to Capitol Hill, the win will represent, by far, Piker’s most impressive bounty yet.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
He remains at large, with a $50,000 Federal Bureau of Investigation bounty on his head.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Along the way she teams up with Ruthye Marye Knoll, played by Ridley, and bounty hunter Lobo, played by Jason Momoa.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Helena squeals with excitement at the bounty in my knapsack.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
He never saw protection of domestic manufacturing as a long-term policy but rather insisted that “continuance of bounties on manufactures long established must almost always be of questionable policy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
It is unclear if lifting the bounties was a part of the negotiations.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
He had seen food bounties offered at Central too, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025
Come dinnertime at 5 p.m., its menu shifts to family-style meals, featuring a large seafood lineup with bounties from its live fish tanks.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
Pennsylvania one year paid out $90,000 in bounties for the killing of 130,000 owls and hawks to save the state’s farmers a slightly less than whopping $1,875 in estimated livestock losses.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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