predator

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Borrowed from Latin praedātor, from praedor (“loot, pillage”), from praeda (“booty, spoils, prey”).

It maneuvered to cut into the herd of long-skulled predators. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne
We open ourselves to predators-- from the steppes of the Caucasus to the oil-rich deserts of Araby. — The Samurai Strategy, Thomas Hoover

marauder, vulture, piranha

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