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prey on

  1. Hunt, especially in order to eat, as in Their cat preys on all the rodents in the neighborhood . [c. 1600]

  2. Exert a baneful or injurious effect, as in Guilt preyed on his mind . [c. 1700]

  3. Plunder or pillage; also, make a profit at someone else's expense, victimize. For example, Vikings preyed on the coastal towns of England , or The rich have been preying on the poor for centuries . [Late 1500s]



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"This is the inaugural launch of Moral Monday. When Congress can come in each day and pray over its work while the majority seeks to pass a budget to prey on women, children, the disabled and the vulnerable—that's not faith—that's hypocrisy, Rev. Barber texted to WBAI/Work-Bites after his release. "Seeking to pass a bill that will cut 36 million people from Medicaid is a direct frontal attack on the sick and disabled in this nation.

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One of Henry’s powers is to prey on the traumatic fears of his perceived enemies, and “Stranger Things: The First Shadow†is able to summon a theater critic’s horrific vision of a Broadway age in which sense is utterly disregarded for violent sensation.

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In “Drop,†Landon, Roach and Jacobs all prey on the viewer’s obscured worry that they’re losing control in a tech-forward world.

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Sentencing Westwood at Wolverhampton Crown Court, Judge Neil Chawla said: "You used your minor celebrity status as an actor to prey on impressionable, innocent, and naive young girls."

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From the 1970s onwards, Smyth was a prominent figure in a Church-linked movement, and used his position to inflict sustained beatings for his own sexual gratification on boys and young men he would prey on at Christian camps and schools.

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