poaching
Americannoun
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poachings
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the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
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any encroachment on another's property, rights, ideas, or the like.
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It’s also compounding an unprecedented poaching spree of top performers across the top law firms, with competitors dangling lucrative compensation packages and senior positions and sometimes hiring away entire teams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Top law firms are under pressure from all sides, with aggressive poaching of rainmakers, the pressure of artificial intelligence and less-loyal clients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Hayden Leigh, a forensic science graduate at the University of Staffordshire, is using samples taken from his hair to help protect modern-day brown bears from illegal poaching.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
By developing more a cost-effective and reliable alternative to DNA analysis, the aim is to help tackle the illegal poaching and trafficking of wildlife.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
The Florida Keys are a national marine sanctuary, which means that the islands are supposedly protected by special laws against pollution, poaching, and other man-made damage.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
That need has fueled bidding wars for proven portfolio managers and poachings such as Bhanji’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
The agency knows that there are a number of undetected wolf poachings, but the numbers must be small because the total number of wolves keep increasing, Smith said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2022
Washington had no confirmed wolf poachings from 2017-2021.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2022
He joined CNN in 2013, one of the earliest poachings by the network’s then-newly appointed president, Jeffrey A. Zucker.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018
Why heed such insignificant poachings as these on his own preserves?
From Under the Skylights by Henry Blake Fuller
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