rapaciously
Americanadverb
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
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
And it’s still impossible for a reader to resist getting sucked into the orbit of Robert Lowell, the rapaciously brilliant and royally messed-up literary lion whom Bishop considered her closest friend.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2015
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
He was not trying on smiles, though he often smiled rapaciously.
From The Possessed (The Devils) by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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