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But study of the animal’s potentially vulture-like features remained on the back burner for years until Dr. van Heteren took it on.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2021

The one exception to this is Nicole’s divorce lawyer, played by Laura Dern, who is so vulture-like it doesn’t leave you with much doubt about Baumbach’s feelings for his ex-wife’s legal team.

From The Guardian • Feb. 5, 2020

Except when the broadswords are being wielded by Skeksis, the shriveled, vulture-like villains of Henson’s Thra.

From Salon • Aug. 28, 2019

Nobody seems to be able to do anything about it — not the U.S. government, not the cowed movie industry and certainly not the ravenous bloggers who have descended, vulture-like, for scraps of gossip.

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2014

At others, she saw a woman in the imagined guise of Mrs. Jock, vulture-like, scornful, icy, narrowed by worldly cravings, a pretty brute.

From The Salamander by Johnson, Owen