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• s  excessively greedy and grasping
  paying taxes to voracious governments
• s  devouring or craving food in great quantities
  voracious sharks

• After her marriage to Ferdinand Marcos, the voracious ambitions of this spoiled child and her dictator husband were to have an appalling impact on the Philippines.
• A voracious autodidact, Borduas craved escape from the stifling local art scene.
• You won't find him making the scene at the Dragon-i bar with the rest of Hong Kong's cinematic swells; his mug rarely appears in the city's voracious tabloids.

• rapacious
• ravening
• edacious
• esurient
• ravenous
• wolfish

News & Articles

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• 2 found dead in area burned by Colo. wildfire
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A voracious wildfire driven in all directions by shifting winds has killed two people and destroyed at least 360 homes — a number that was likely to climb as the most destructive blaze in Colorado history burned for a third day through miles of tinder-dry woods, a sheriff said Thursday.
  June 14, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Two found dead in Colorado wildfire area
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A voracious wildfire driven in all directions by shifting winds has killed two people and destroyed at least 360 homes -- a number that was likely to climb as the most destructive blaze in Colorado history burned for a third day through miles of tinder-dry woods, a sheriff said Thursday.
  June 14, 2013 - Pioneer Press
• Colorado wildfire destroys at least 360 homes
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A voracious wildfire driven in all directions by shifting winds destroyed at least 360 homes — a number that was likely to climb as the most destructive blaze in Colorado history burned out of control for a third day through miles of tinder-dry woods.
  June 13, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• John Edwards in International Herald Tribune
  Rielle Hunter, a 42-year-old who recently gave birth to a girl who Edwards says is not his, has long been said to be the inspiration for Alison Poole, the "cocaine-addled, sexually voracious" 20-year-old lead character in "My Life Story," Jay...
• William Gates in AFP
  Very early he demonstrated this really insatiable curiosity,his father, William Gates Sr., said of his son in a video interview posted on the Microsoft website. "He became a voracious reader. We knew he was smart, he was academically...
• Craig James in NEWS.com.au
  The greenback continues to fall from favour, the Australian economy is rock solid and China's voracious demand for raw materials continues to boost demand and price for commodities,said Craig James, chief economist at ComSec.