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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sight of her old neighbourly depredator shivering at the door in tatters, the very oddity of his appeal, touched a soft spot in the spinster’s heart.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

It was not long before the depredator of the night was there, and a lurid gleam stood out of his eyes.

From Anglo-Saxon Literature by Earle, John

We watched for several following nights, but if Master Bruin had been the depredator, he was too wary to repeat his visits.

From With Axe and Rifle by Meyer, H.

When I discovered one morning that my young sunflowers and my tomato vines had been cut down during the night by some lawless depredator I was mightily incensed.

From The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice by Field, Eugene