How to Use dog-eat-dog in a Sentence
dog-eat-dog
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Rhyme schemes become secondary to dog-eat-dog dogma.
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Pitchfork,
10 Dec. 2025
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Halton described himself as an explosive play-maker who can be a dog in a dog-eat-dog world.
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Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
25 Apr. 2026
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Joy radiates in the room, and a dog-eat-dog environment where people cut each other off is replaced by open collaboration.
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Barry Levitt,
Time,
19 Sep. 2025
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But social mobility in this dog-eat-dog environment comes at a high price, one the benevolent Rastignac is initially unwilling to pay.
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Big Think,
29 Apr. 2026
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People sometimes forget that World War II was a dog-eat-dog struggle for resources – oil and uranium but also dozens of other materials, everything from rubber to copper.
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Thomas Robertson,
Fortune,
17 Feb. 2026
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