Example Sentences

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Beijing has not let up in its efforts to make internet companies behave less rapaciously.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021

Ms. Martin, who had lived briefly among them, framed her observations as fieldwork, portraying herself a hapless outsider determined to document her neighbors’ venal, rapaciously competitive ways.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2018

For a company that has a reputation for rapaciously collecting user data and then turning that data into ads and services, it’s surprising to hear that Google doesn’t want an owned-and-operated chat app.

From The Verge • Apr. 19, 2018

This laugh-track show with softball punchlines about a rapaciously entrepreneurial and girl-crazy blond kid with a giant cellphone who never actually gets into any trouble?

From Slate • Sep. 2, 2014

His expression was as it were rapaciously furtive.

From Ann Veronica, a modern love story by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)