Example Sentences

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Boarding school has parasitically replaced Vanessa’s incipient interior life with its own simulacrum of one.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2020

What “Cat Person” and “The Good Guy” share is a merciless realism, particularly about the fantasies that attach themselves parasitically to our relationships, making us false to ourselves and others.

From Slate • Jan. 8, 2019

What ABC and the producers did, of course, was rid themselves of an annoyance, a troublesome show that had become unmanageable, almost parasitically taken over by a Twitter feed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2018

For, as all true celebrities discover, the media image feeds parasitically on human energy, starving them and removing them, slowly, from the realm of the living.

From The Guardian • Aug. 29, 2017

Pyrenomycetes.—This is an extraordinarily large and varied group of forms which mostly live parasitically or saprophytically on vegetable tissue, but a few are parasitic on insect-larvae.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various