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The phrase "are a predatory" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks context.
It can be used in a sentence where you are describing a group or entity that exhibits predatory behavior, but it needs to be part of a complete thought.
Example: "These companies are a predatory force in the market, exploiting vulnerable consumers."
Alternatives: "exhibit predatory behavior" or "are predatory entities".
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Adapted by Roman Polanski from Ira Levin's best seller, "Rosemary's Baby" is spiked with New York in-jokes, starting with the set-up: a young couple luck into their dream apartment (in the Dakota, no less), only to find that the neighbors are a predatory coven of elderly devil worshipers.
After all, humans are a predatory species, and our main prey is our own kind -- for the usual suspects of sex, food, survival or status.
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"It was a predatory system".
"It seems he's a predatory developer".
There was a predatory vibe.
Her first voice is a predatory snarl.
His co-defendant, Marc Draper, convinced the jury that Mr. Williams was a predatory killer.
To do so, they say, is a predatory practice that exploits writers.
Second, for each heedless debtor, there will have been a predatory lender.
She added that patients can be made victims easily, "and this is a predatory system".
They didn't know it was a predatory lender; they just came for help.
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