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Six example sentences with voracious, each labelled with its topic.
A voracious bidder swallowed four regional chains in one year, borrowing against each purchase to fund the next.
Finance
The novel's landlord is voracious, raising rents twice a season and buying the cottages his tenants leave behind.
Literature
Colonial trading companies were voracious, taking timber, ore, and shipping rights faster than any treaty could record.
Economics
The voracious railroad barons of the 1870s bought judges, legislatures, and rival lines with equal appetite.
History
The conglomerate was voracious, swallowing a supplier one quarter and a competitor the next until regulators finally stepped in.
Business
Voracious developers took the wetland acre by acre, until the last heron colony sat between two parking lots.
Environment
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