devourer
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devourers
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That species is the zombie worm, formally known as "the bone devourer" Osedax.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 28, 2025
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
Are you a devourer of films, or do you prefer to look elsewhere?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2017
“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
With crooked beaks, salt-water bibbers, Ye oily seal-flesh devourers!
From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine
He lives by devouring the devourers; he subsists for weeks and months on locusts alone, and also preserves a stock of this food dried, as we do herrings or pilchards, for future consumption.
From The Illustrated London Reading Book by Various
And the turtle devourers were stretched on the floor— Each cheek changed to purple—so crimson before!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 by Various
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