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• Consistent predatory pricing makes the potential entrants believe that the predator is a low-cost firm.2016, Sumit Sarkar, “Business Poker: Playing Games with Limited Information”, in Out-think!: How to Use Game Theory to Outsmart Your…. From the entry bluff out
• Akira, the genki red head, is accosted by Kyouko, a predatory blond girl in her high school.2009 July 7, Dave Baranyi, “Aoi Hana - Blue Flowers for a Blue Girl”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet). From the entry genki
• The gempylids, or snake mackerels, are a small group of predatory oceanic or pelagic fish.2002, S. S. Deshpande, Handbook of Food Toxicology, page 696. From the entry gempylid
• These deimatic eye spots do not have the same function as those that deflect predatory attack.1988, John L. Cloudsley-Thompson, Evolution and Adaptation of Terrestrial Arthropods, page 122. From the entry deimatic
• Gars are long, slender, predatory fishes of quiet waters east of the Rockies.1967, George K. Reid, edited by Herbert S. Zim and George S. Fichter, Pond Life, New York: Golden Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128. From the entry gar
• Somewhere out there, predatory lizards called chapsosaurs and large alligator-like crocodilians lurk, mostly submerged in the water, snapping at fish.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 107. From the entry champsosaur
• He was moving towards her with a purposefully predatory stride, stopping only when he was breath-catching inches away from her.2014, Elizabeth Power, Back in the Lion's Den, →ISBN. From the entry breath-catching
• Important predatory groups in the beech forest at Göttinger Wald are chilopods, spiders, carabid and staphylinid beetles and gamasid mites.2009, M. Schaefer, S. Migge-Kleian, S. Scheu, “Chapter 12: The Role of Soil Fauna for Decomposition of Plant Residues”, in Rainer Brumme…. From the entry chilopod
• The above comparative account reveals coccinellids to be more voracious, with both adults and larvae predatory in nature.2003, G. Tripathi, Potentials Of Living Resources, page 561. From the entry coccinellid
• For all its silliness and underinventiveness, Rats stands no chance of being trounced by the culturally predatory Cats.1984 February 4, Michael Bronski, “Cats: Straight and Boring”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 17. From the entry underinventiveness
• Braidwood describes their practitioners as living 'in a completely dielemental catch-as-catch-can state, as small predatory bands of food-collectors'.1977, Jack Golson, The Ladder of Social Evolution, Sydney University Press for the Australian Academy of the Humanities, →ISBN, page 8. From the entry dielemental
• The predatory woman and the pawing man are dynamite.1948, The American Magazine, volume 145, page 122. From the entry pawer
• Manipulative populism is a predatory ideology.2022 September 4, Garfield Higgins, “Divisions, misinformation, and disinformation”, in Jamaica Observer. From the entry post-truthism
• All of these solitary parasitoid wasps that use their sting-ovipositors for stinging prey and depositing eggs are subjected to little predatory pressure from large predators.2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry parasitoid
• All centipedes (Chilopoda) and spiders (Aranea) are predatory and although they are often found on corpses their impact on the other fauna is not known.2011, Alan Gunn, Essential Forensic Biology, 2nd edition, unnumbered page. From the entry centipede
• Bush administration allies exploited the former Congressman's predatory history to spread the grotesque canard that homosexuality is a direct path to pedophilia.2006 October 15, Frank Rich, “The Gay Old Party Comes Out”, in The New York Times. From the entry blood libel
• Only a little removed from the predatory oafdom of male adolescence, he is suspicious of Christian and covertly protective of Cher's person and future.1999, Barbara Tepa Lupack, Nineteenth-Century Women at the Movies, page 123. From the entry covertly
• Physical disorder measured in the SSO is only moderately correlated with rates of predatory crime measured by police-recorded rates of homicide, robbery, and burglary.1999 11, Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, “Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban…. From the entry SSO
• Spiders are all predatory, some even cannibalistic; they may be grotesque, even hideous to look at – although some are extraordinarily beautiful.1976, Barbara York Main, Spiders (The Australian Naturalist Library), Sydney: William Collins Publishers, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry araneophobe
• Moreover, where older firms might have to stave off competitors and engage in practices like predatory pricing to keep the competition at bay, platform monopolies have a built-in moat.2023 November 28, JS Tan, “It's All Bullshit”, in The Baffler. From the entry moat
• United's defence went missing in the 47th minute when Kolarov and Negredo combined and the predatory Aguero was once more the beneficiary with a simple side-footed finish.2013 September 22, Phil McNulty, “Man City 4-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport. From the entry go missing
• Pirate spiders (Family Mimetidae) use aggressive mimicry in their capture of spiders, by producing vibratory stimuli on webs, thereby inducing a predatory response of the resident.1990, George W. Uetz, “Chapter 4: Prey Selection in Web-Building Spiders and Evolution of Prey Defenses”, in David L. Evans, Justin O.…. From the entry pirate spider
• There is no doubt that if Norfolk is famous for any one species of fish, then it is for none other than Esox himself, the predatory pike.1965, The Fishing Gazette [New Series] - Issues 4560-4585, page 14. From the entry pikey

Meaning of predatory

1. adjective Of, or relating to a predator.
2. adjective Living by preying on other living animals.
3. adjective Exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain.

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How do you use predatory in a sentence?

Predatory is used as an adjective. For example: “Harry Kane was back to his predatory best after struggling in the group stage, following up his goal against Germany by poking home a superb pass from Raheem Sterling after only four minutes.”

What is a short sentence with predatory?

“Manipulative populism is a predatory ideology.”

What does predatory mean?

Predatory means of, or relating to a predator.