Using "predatory" in a sentence

Meanwhile, the Britney Spears Streaming Service Documentary Industrial Complex sprung up to document these affairs, and these films often doubled as an opportunity to revisit the mega-gross first five years or so of Britney’s career, full of slobbering interviewers and other avatars of what I will euphemistically describe as “one-handed journalism” and predatory paparazzi and fuckin’ Justin Timberlake.
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He recommends maintaining a safe distance, especially when photography the predatory species of birds.
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4 View gallery The Big Bang/ Illustration (Photo: Shutterstock)This extraordinarily wide diversity also led to the appearance of the first predatory species, since up until this point in time we know only of gatherers, not hunters, which fed on unicellular algae and bacteria.
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Roland never quite recovers from this wildly predatory affair (he 14, she 25).
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  Brian Hare Hare says it may be hard to imagine, but that sweet dog you love started out as this: a wild, predatory wolf.
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“??EThe Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks%” - Satoshi Nakamoto, January 3, 2009This now infamous inscription in the genesis block made clear the inappropriate fractional reserve banking and predatory loan fiascos of our regulated banking industry was to be put to rest once and for all by this emergent monetary protocol; a completely transparent and decentralized ledger would de-incentivize fraud and prevent obfuscation of illicit activity.
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Members of the terrier lineage, for example, tended to show predatory behaviour and aggression towards other dogs, whereas toy dogs tended to be nervous.
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This “supergroup” contains an incredibly diverse range of predatory microbes that are extremely different genetically from any other form of life on Earth.
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Nowadays there are many many games built on the same predatory allure and features that casinos and gambling venues/products have, hiring people with tailored toolsets and knowhow on how to build an addictive interaction which is going to be much more effective on the youngest.
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Limiting the range of some calls could have helped katydids hide from predatory eavesdroppers on the hunt for an insect feast.
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Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening in American Beauty (1999) Twenty years after the new Netflix addition American Beauty was released, Esquire sought to uncover some of the problematic tendencies the film is privy to; male perversion, a lack of diversity on screen and predatory behavior.
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  Snap is not only a great mobile game; it’s a great mobile game that features almost none of the predatory practices that we typically associate with the mobile game scene.
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Given the massive pushback Diablo Immortal received due to its predatory pay-to-win mechanics, it is unlikely that Diablo 4 will have anything to do with real-world money outside of the initial purchase.
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At the same time, the FHFA should support fair lending and protect consumers from predatory and costly practices, possibly in collaboration with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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They’ll avoid areas where predatory animals seem to be.
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The paranasal air sinuses of predatory and armored dinosaurs (Archosauria: Theropoda and Ankylosauria) and their contribution to cephalic structure.
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(Chad Surmick/The Press Democrat) Carnivorous plants are predatory flowering plants that attract, trap and digest animals or insects to derive nutrition.
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Whistler said a stun gun, mace or a firearm are things campers might want to keep on hand as well, especially when camping in areas with large predatory animals.
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This is a matter of efficacy: if you want to alleviate suffering but you're encouraging people to go blindly into highly lucrative and thus often-predatory sectors of law, finance, tech, consulting and real estate, you're throwing gas on a lot of the fires you're trying to put out.
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" When Delma looked confused, Capri pointed to the flowers around him, "These flower-like creatures are actually a group of water-dwelling, predatory animals.
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For instance, he said, larger grocers have run predatory campaigns against his own chain by offering coupons for free groceries.
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More than active dislike, it is her mother’s constant choosing to unsee her which unsettles Qala as a child, and turns her into a tremulous people-pleaser as an adult, showing up in her dealings with the predatory music composer (Amit Sial), and her own inability to savour her success.
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Now, as an incrementalist I want to be cautious here because I don’t think that predatory animals are doing anything wrong.
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A persistent theme in the film is how much time a teenage Alanis spent on her own in a world full of adults who were oblivious or benignly neglectful at best, predatory at worst (including an MCA Records executive who was known as “Uncle” John Alexander).
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Bad Girls Go to Hell is a nightmare journey for Meg, with nearly everyone that she encounters exhibiting predatory tendencies.
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The footage collected is being used to investigate potential relationships between environmental conditions and shark predatory behavior.
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These higher temperatures have allowed an aggressive predatory fish, the smallmouth bass, to slip through the Glen Canyon Dam’s turbine system and survive downstream of Lake Powell, where it now poses a direct and immediate threat to the humpback chub within the Grand Canyon.
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The New York Times Presents hails from the same team responsible for the FX and Hulu docuseries The Weekly, which won four News & Documentary Emmy Awards, an Overseas Press Club award, and its reporting on how a predatory lending scheme had corrupted the taxi industry in New York and elsewhere was part of a body of work that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
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1 hit in 1982 for the genre-bending Philadelphia ‘rock & soul’ duo Hall & Oates, ‘Maneater’ offers a warning against a predatory femme fatale, set against a vaguely new wave and faintly ominous landscape of saxophone, drums and synthesizer.
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The episode starts when FBI Agent Amanda Gilroy (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) discovers that Peter (Michael Len), a boy who went missing some time ago, may still be alive but is now being auctioned off in a predatory chatroom.
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District Judge who serves as the Disciplinary Officer for the NFL, had already highlighted the NFL’s finding that Watson “used his status as an NFL player as a pretext to engage in a premeditated pattern of predatory behavior toward multiple women,” and found that the league had proven “Mr.
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99, has been decried by artists as predatory to real, human-made artwork.
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“Mr Fahey has led the recent ongoing project consisting of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) releasing native predatory mites Typhlodromus doreenae.
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He grilled Kaplan about why he wouldn’t allow Rapp’s team to mention other legal issues that Spacey is facing surrounding sexual misconduct in the United Kingdom, as well the $31 million in damages that the actor has been ordered to pay “House of Cards” producer MRC for allegedly engaging in sexually predatory behavior during that show’s production.
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Starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan as The New York Times journalists Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, it is a right-versus-might story that brings home the heavy personal damage caused by Weinstein’s predatory exploitation of hopeful young actresses.
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During its run, The Weekly won four News and Documentary Emmy Awards, and its coverage of predatory lending schemes among New York City taxis was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize.
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"While Hadley says she loves taking photos of all creatures, much of her work is centered images of large predatory animals.
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Allowing tech and commercial companies to act as banks without proper oversight "will only open doors for predatory lending, invasions of consumer privacy, and broader financial instability," Brown, D-Ohio, said in a press release.
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➤  READ MORE  📱 ALLEGATIONSNusi Quero, designer of Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ cover art, accused of sexual assault by multiple women Nusi Quero, a Los Angeles-based designer, has been accused of predatory behavior and sexual assault by over 30 women via Instagram.
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A previous mobile game, Diablo Immortal also has tons of microtransactions and many accuse them as predatory in nature.
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The Biden Justice Department warned us that, without a cap, predatory law firms could grab the lion's share of these judgments and leave Marines and their family members with crumbs.
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  Midnight Suns also reminds us that card-based games only have a bad name these days because of predatory pack practices.
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"(Yi-Kai Tea/CSIRO)More than 750 mineralized teeth, representing a range of predatory species, were hauled up from a depth of 5.
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The image reflects known styles and themes of the Neolithic, Özdoğan writes in the paper, with an emphasis “placed on predatory and aggressive aspects of the animal world”.
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The problem of predatory cyber bots is only growing with an expanded e-commerce base,” Tonko continued.
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Times writer Louis Sahagún details the efforts groups are taking to protect our official state reptile, including deterring predatory ravens with lasers and a petition to list the tortoise under California’s Endangered Species Act.
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"So many people's lives are being destroyed," Henry said, "by predatory lawyers and their greed.
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Some causes of the hitch’s decline, however, seem extraordinarily difficult to fix: prolonged drought, mercury contamination, gravel mining, an overtaxed water distribution system, pesticides and runoff from vineyards and marijuana grows, and predatory nonnative game fish.
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That drop was predicated largely on the Great Recession of the early 2000s, itself caused by predatory subprime lending practices that disproportionately targeted Black homeowners and other people of color.
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Taylor argues that the abolition of redlining led to a new type of housing discrimination, something she calls “predatory inclusion.
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Development experts have accused it of setting “debt traps” for developing countries with its lending program of more than $500 billion, which has been described as predatory.
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Some “predatory” journals publish findings with little oversight in return for author fees.
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But in many predatory dinosaur illustrations, these are usually missing, making them look fierce, if improbable.
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Secretary of the Commonwealth Bill Galvin, who oversees most land records in Massachusetts, told Boston 25 Investigates his office is “very interested” in finding out if MV Realty is “engaging in predatory practices.
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Who is responsible for these extended anti-child, anti-science predatory policies that take advantage of captive audiences during what should be sublime and elevating experiences? The Jewish Museum dropped its mask mandate but requires visiting school groups to mask up.
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Other critics point out how apps like Lensa, trained off what’s essentially a sampling of the whole Internet, amplify the misogyny and predatory aspects of some corners of the web.
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Birders should keep their eyes peeled for loggerhead shrikes, a native predatory songbird that is declining in the Washington area.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine

They’re predatory monsters who feed on the vulnerable to make themselves more powerful.
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A thread by voice artist Jenny Yokobori explained that AI apps creating art, such as Lensa, "are predatory and intend to replace artists".
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“One Click” explores the stories of other young DNP victims, whose deaths were all caused by a combination of predatory marketing, toxic diet culture and unregulated online pharmacies.
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However, PGB domain proteins are also known to operate in peptidoglycan synthesis and cell shape remodelling47, and may thus allow the Mitibacteraceae to evade predatory protists by providing cell shape plasticity48.
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CNN  —  The largest predatory dinosaur to ever walk on Earth sported a massive sail that rose from its back, but it turns out this imposing creature would have made for a very slow and awkward swimmer, according to new research.
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The aforementioned Battlefield 2042 debacle hurt EA and DICE significantly, and franchises like FIFA and Madden still come under heavy fire from fans for what they perceive to be predatory microtransaction implementation.
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Now that series has the weird gamer stink of predatory microtransactions associated with it.
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So I think of them as imperfect — as we all are — and oftentimes damaged by the universe that is maybe predatory or at best, you know, disregards them," she said.
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Actions include ensuring there are flowers to provide nectar throughout insects’ active period, in spring and summer, and leaving pest species on roses and vegetables as a food source for predatory ladybirds.
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It doesn’t cost anything to play, but the microtransactions are predatory.
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Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature, including: – the mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs,– the Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated by pollution and dams,– the bizarre, predatory Bobbitt worm (named after Lorena),– the common goldfish that flourishes in the wild,– and more.
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Square Enix’s Chocobo GP hasn’t gotten off to the best start with a predatory monetisation system not just in the free-to-play version, but with the paid version of Chocobo GP which costs £40.
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After the essay appeared, other employees began speaking up about what they considered a pattern of predatory behavior by male colleagues.
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In the film, her character was preyed upon by a predatory director.
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Some causes of the hitch’s decline, however, seem extraordinarily difficult to fix: prolonged drought, mercury contamination, gravel mining, an overtaxed water distribution system, pesticides and runoff from vineyards and marijuana grows, and predatory nonnative game fish.
Source: Los Angeles Times

This is often touted by Bitcoin promoters as a way to shield citizens’ assets from the legacy banking system perceived as predatory when it comes to fund transfers, and lacking as regards privacy.
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“The absence of tech-enabled credit assessment infrastructure has limited the quality and quantity of lending and may be behind the risk premiums borrowers have to pay, and the harassment practised by predatory lenders within the continent.
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They offered a form of protection from the predatory men she encountered in the modeling industry.
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We can’t wait to see more of what the team at Blizzard Entertainment is doing with the franchise, and hopefully they stay true to their goals and managed to redeem the series after the predatory mess that was their mobile entry.
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Nature | 5 min readRead more: Can China avoid a wave of deaths if it lifts strict zero COVID policy? (Nature | 5 min read, from November)Study uncovers dogs’ ‘SQUIRREL!’ genesA study that combined behavioural data from 46,000 dogs with 4,000 dogs’ DNA sequences has pinpointed genetic variants linked to nervousness and predatory behaviour, such as chasing squirrels.
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All are “vertically integrated” — they have harvesting and pulping capabilities as well as box-making plants and distribution networks — and most have grown, like predatory aquarium fish, by devouring their smaller peers.
Source: The New York Times

For gamers, it’s another form of predatory monetization with potentially dire environmental consequences.
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When Mena Suvari’s memoir came out last year, her son was only a few months old and she was dealing with postnatal depression, all while promoting her book, The Great Peace, and talking about the traumas within: rape; predatory older men; drug addiction; and a terrifying and abusive relationship.
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In a more daring and intelligent incarnation, Glenn’s predatory take on Hook could have been uncomfortably meaningful, but he just comes across as an odd mashup of Henry Higgins and the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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“When we look at the need to protect African Americans from the predatory exploitation of the tobacco industry, we need to look at the fact that a menthol ban will protect them,” Ms.
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There are imaginary luxury resorts, predatory yoga instructors, fake royals, and even the downfall of a Real Housewife.
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) He signs a predatory contract with Bang! Records, barely scrapes out of it thanks to “Sweet Caroline,” and then is reborn in the second act as a feathered-haired-and-sequin-spangled rock god.
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The hitch needs immediate action, including captive rearing, enforcement action against illegal water withdrawals by cannabis growers and others, control of invasive predatory fish in the lake, and work with legal water rights holders to maintain instream flows.
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3, 2021, when he was still the Texans’ franchise quarterback, and since his mandated 2021 timeout by Houston and 11-game 2022 suspension, should serve as a reminder of the predatory behavior that prompted Roger Goodell’s NFL to send him into exile.
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com/icon ReportThis monkey wins Movember 29points reply View more comments #21 The Angler Fish Is Perhaps One Of The Most Fascinating And Bizarre Sea Creatures Known To Man Not only known for its wily predation techniques (re: possessing a spine that grows its own glowing fleshy mass, which the fish wiggles about to lure in other predatory sea creatures that it will ultimately devour), the angler fish’s mating habits are rather unique.
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That could be changing the way appraisers value homes with a more data-driven focus, rooting out predatory lending practices that disproportionately affect low-income families, breaking down barriers for backyard accessory dwelling units, passing 100% affordable housing overlays in more cities across the country and clearing the way for more off-site, modular housing construction.
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The documentary shows a number of predatory men approaching her and also following her home.
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In the film, her character was preyed upon by a predatory director.
Source: New York Post

It also has won over many thanks to its non-predatory microtransactions and in-game store.
Source: Kotaku

Life history and ecologyThe elevated juvenile growth rates associated with reticular fibrolamellar bone may have served as an adaptation to the particular ecology and life history of Whatcheeria: individuals could have reached maximum body size and sexual maturity more quickly5, allowing them to occupy a large-bodied, predatory niche in their paleoecosystem44,59.
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Photograph: David Whiteside, Sophie Chambi-Trowell, Mike Benton and Natural History Museum UK“It’s an anguimorph lizard, which today includes 350 species, including everything from the gila monster of North America to the Komodo monitor, the huge predatory lizard of Indonesia,” said Benton.
Source: The Guardian

This is a matter of efficacy: if you want to alleviate suffering but you're encouraging people to go blindly into highly lucrative and thus often-predatory sectors of law, finance, tech, consulting and real estate, you're throwing gas on a lot of the fires you're trying to put out.
Source: MSNBC

Jack Russell terriers are characterised by high predatory chasing.
Source: The Conversation

While predatory in nature, Bone Thugs highlights the predatory nature by which black individuals are targeted by cops and assume a similar nature in order to look out for one another.
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Google warns about commercial Heliconia spyware hitting Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Defender Almost 300 predatory loan apps found in Google and Apple stores Intruders gain access to user data in LastPass incident Android users in 12 US states cleared to sue Google Play  "There is no indication that this malware is or was on the Google Play Store," the spokesperson added.
Source: The Register

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