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Recent Examples of voracity
The biblical voracity of these insects make them among the world’s most destructive pests.
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Gennaro Tomma,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2024
Obviously though, this voracity for Sonnys doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
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Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
8 July 2024
While the public’s voracity for opinion polls has diminished greatly after the elections handed Javier Milei the Presidency, figures have slowly been making their way into the public realm.
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Agustino Fontevecchia,
Forbes,
30 Mar. 2024
The voracity of everyday life flattens the human landscape and makes people into roles, stripping them of their inner characteristics and personal stories and, therefore, their importance.
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Callum McLennan,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2024
See All Example Sentences for voracity
Gennaro Tomma,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2024
Obviously though, this voracity for Sonnys doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
8 July 2024
While the public’s voracity for opinion polls has diminished greatly after the elections handed Javier Milei the Presidency, figures have slowly been making their way into the public realm.
—
Agustino Fontevecchia,
Forbes,
30 Mar. 2024
The voracity of everyday life flattens the human landscape and makes people into roles, stripping them of their inner characteristics and personal stories and, therefore, their importance.
—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2024
See All Example Sentences for voracity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for voracity
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The French—and, later, Anglo (Wilde, Beardsley, Rossetti)—attitude, mannered and morbid, was perhaps too Old World, at odds with our cheerful, Protestant rapacity.
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Unlike the specialized literary magazine and its informal cousin, the literary blog, the general-interest newspaper has a kind of noble rapacity, an encyclopedic ambition to wrap its arms around the whole of the world.
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That voraciousness informs her work, her choices, and her understanding of character.
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Its voraciousness has threatened native populations of minks, muskrats, and river otters.
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Some laud the nation’s rapaciousness.
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The goal is to make the stomach able to hold more food before the brain signals that the competitive eater is full.
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The parasite is killed by heat, so cooking normally takes care of it, but when the weather warms up and people look for ways to leave their stoves off, this stomach-churning bug finds an opening.
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The concept has already spread to more than 50 cities across 30 states and 10 countries, tapping into a growing hunger for face-to-face connection that dating apps have failed to deliver.
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In polling across four states, voters were nearly unanimous that ending childhood hunger should be bipartisan.
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“Voracity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/voracity. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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