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 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
“There’s definitely a part of me that doesn’t like making something that’s obviously a lot of work and thought and I’ve built a community around that does exist parasitically off this large corporation,” Buckehham said.
From Slate • Jun. 7, 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
In ancient, in mediaeval, and in modern times the student notices a great undergrowth of superstition clinging parasitically to all religions, though formally recognized by none.
From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by Griffis, William Elliot
