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These birds have many different calls to warn each other of predators.predators = animals that hunt and kill them
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The hawk is a predatory bird.predatory = animal that lives by hunting and eating other animals
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They are predatory lenders who mislead their customers.predatory = given to exploitation and victimization of others
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Owls and coyotes are the primary predators that threaten our kittens.predators = animals that hunt and eat other animals
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The monopoly was accused of predatory pricing.predatory = unfair (victimizing others)
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The yellow-spotted lizards like to live in holes, which offer shade from the sun and protection from predatory birds. (source)predatory = hunting for food
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—a Tyrannosaurus rex, the mightiest predator the earth had ever known— (source)predator = a type of animal that hunts and eats other animals
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The predators ignore us on a day when easier, tastier prey abounds. (source)predators = animals that hunt and kill
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Roland moves toward her in a slow, predatory stride. (source)predatory = hunting-like
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In many poor countries, the problem is not so much individual thugs and rapists but an entire culture of sexual predation.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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Nadia would never be able to determine what had become of them, but she always hoped they had found a way to depart unharmed, abandoning the city to the predations of warriors on both sides who seemed content to flatten it in order to possess it.† (source)
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The cause was the so-called superpredator.† (source)
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In a general way we mean how our species' excessive predatoriness has made the entire planet our prey.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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In fact, the "bloodbath" school of criminology was touting exactly the opposite theory—that an increase in the teenage share of the population would produce a crop of superpredators who would lay the nation low.† (source)
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Downstream a disturbance shook the water, and a dozen silvery cigar-sized fish jumped in unison, trying to escape some hungry predator. (source)predator = an animal that hunts and eats other animals
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Game becomes seemingly plentiful in the fall (it's easier to see with the leaves off the brush) but in winter it gets scarce and sometimes simply nonexistent as predators (fox, lynx, wolf, owls, weasels, fisher, martin, northern coyote) sweep through areas and wipe things out. (source)predators = animals that hunt and eat other animals
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That same year, on 30 October, another US Predator hit a madrasa on a hill near the main town of Khar, killing eighty-two people, many of them young boys. (source)Predator = a type of military drone
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On 17 June 2004 an unmanned Predator dropped a Hellfire missile on Nek Mohammad in South Waziristan, apparently while he was giving an interview by satellite phone. (source)
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