devourer
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devourers
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If the "bone devourer" is missing, the chain reaction can affect many other species.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 28, 2025
In Egyptian mythology, Ammit, or Ammut, is described as a monstrous deity and the devourer of hearts and the dead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2022
The devourer of young adult and coming-of-age novels wanted more than her group’s sporadic get-togethers could deliver.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2018
For Haspel, an Anglophile and devourer of British mystery series, the posting was particularly satisfying, those who know her said.
From Washington Post ● May 7, 2018
“My name is Ammut, and I’m a demon, devourer of the dead.”
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
This realizes what Joan Didion describes in her 2000 New Yorker essay about the “unusual bonding” and “proprietary intimacy” Stewart creates with us — her people, her consumers, her devourers.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2024
Within hours the locusts are transformed from solitary plant eaters to synchronized, swarming cannibalistic devourers of their brethren.
From Salon ● May 30, 2021
His notions may be summed up thus: universal death necessitates universal sepulture; the devourers are the sextons of the system of nature.
From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
They who confer power, the roarers, the devourers of foes, they made winds and lightnings by their powers.
From Sacred Books of the East by Various
They who are brilliant, of terrible designs, powerful, and devourers of foes; with the Maruts come hither, O Agni!
From Sacred Books of the East by Various
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