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  • Couldn't get the redness and the swelling out of my mind, my skin responding to the invasion of parasitic bacteria.  (source)
    parasitic = of a species that lives on (or in) another species and eats from it without providing return benefit
  • I am tired of being a parasite.  (source)
    parasite = person who lives off others' efforts without providing return benefit to them
  • Lackeys of the bourgeoisie! Flunkies of the ruling class! Parasites — that was another of them.  (source)
    Parasites = a person who lives off others' efforts without providing return benefit to them
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  • Foodborne parasites and pathogens made diarrhea almost ubiquitous.†  (source)
  • Even that damn parasite, the patroller, saw the resemblance between me and Alice's mother.†  (source)
  • partially eaten animal procedures performed: X ray, microscopic, immunological RTX for viral, parasitic, bacterial disease.†  (source)
  • Parasitism, pure and simple.†  (source)
  • "Poodles," he said, "are parasites."†  (source)
  • Like a parasite's, the system's life depends on the continuation of mine.†  (source)
  • Meanwhile, the connection between them grows ever stronger, a parasitic growth.†  (source)
  • Add the suppression of parasitism, and it will be solved.†  (source)
  • Him and his big house and fancy daughters — those frivolous parasites who lived off the sweat of the masses.†  (source)
  • And he thought then about the Guild — the force that had specialized for so long that it had become a parasite, unable to exist independently of the life upon which it fed.†  (source)
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