vulture
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I finally looked up the species: It was a gallinazo, also known as a black vulture, and as much as we might ignore them, they’d been circling the whole time.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026
Critics tend to debate whether she is a vulture or just losing her grasp on reality, but there’s no question she’s hit on a successful formula.
From Slate • Feb. 27, 2026
Meanwhile the narrator’s financially devious husband appears as a vulture with “the brooding eye, the blood-tipped beak, the flabby folds of flesh” of a bird of prey.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
As someone who was bitterly labelled as a "culture vulture" by a British grime artist in 2019, the Canadian certainly got the opportunity to set the record straight over the weekend.
From BBC • Jul. 12, 2025
Igor Bondarevsky referred to Tal's movements as “circling around the table like a vulture”—presumably, a vulture ready to pounce.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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