poaching
Americannoun
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the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
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any encroachment on another's property, rights, ideas, or the like.
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A clawed caper at the Santa Monica Pier went awry despite “sophisticated” attempts by suspects to get away with poaching roughly three dozen spiny lobsters, authorities said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The 1700s statutes were not, in fact, limited to poaching, but were also meant to prevent “armed trespass, property theft or damage, and gun violence, whether intentional or accidental.”
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
Experts say poaching in the region has waned, though a ranger found part of an old snare during AFP's visit.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
According to Edinburgh Zoo, Sumatran tigers are critically endangered due to habitat destruction and poaching.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
His attempted poaching of Fermi succeeded only in provoking an outraged protest by Columbia to Bush, who forbade the move.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
That need has fueled bidding wars for proven portfolio managers and poachings such as Bhanji’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
The agency knows that there are a number of undetected wolf poachings, but the numbers must be small because the total number of wolves keep increasing, Smith said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2022
Washington had no confirmed wolf poachings from 2017-2021.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2022
He joined CNN in 2013, one of the earliest poachings by the network’s then-newly appointed president, Jeffrey A. Zucker.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018
He has a hundred heads to plan his poachings, a hundred eyes to spy the land, a hundred hands to set his snares and springes.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales by Bierce, Ambrose
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