devourer
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If the "bone devourer" is missing, the chain reaction can affect many other species.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 28, 2025
In comic books, Galactus is known as the devourer of worlds.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2022
The devourer of young adult and coming-of-age novels wanted more than her group’s sporadic get-togethers could deliver.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2018
Are you a devourer of films, or do you prefer to look elsewhere?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2017
“Do I surprise you, Amelia? Betsy, in public the devourer of novels, in secret a woman of great ambition?”
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
This realizes what Joan Didion describes in her 2000 New Yorker essay about the “unusual bonding” and “proprietary intimacy” Stewart creates with us — her people, her consumers, her devourers.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2024
Within hours the locusts are transformed from solitary plant eaters to synchronized, swarming cannibalistic devourers of their brethren.
From Salon ● May 30, 2021
And there are people malicious enough to call your ladyship one of his devourers too.
From Next Door Neighbours A Comedy in Three Acts by Inchbald, Mrs.
After the devourers of the soft parts will come the irresistible artisans of the bones.
From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Blasco Ib??ez, Vicente
How many of the insatiate devourers of fiction who feed voraciously on the paper-covered volumes of the news-stand have ever heard of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph for example?
From Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms by Matthews, Brander
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