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"prey to" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means being vulnerable or easily affected by something negative or harmful. You can use it to describe a situation where someone or something is at risk of being harmed or controlled by something else. Example: The small village was left prey to the ruthless attacks of the neighboring tribe.
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"Let us not fall prey to rumors".
Collins is prey to a guilty secret.
Most of us fall prey to caricature.
I fall prey to whatever they have.
And don't fall prey to hysteria.
Yet it risks falling prey to hubris.
The countryside was prey to marauding peasants.
SOME converts fall prey to zealotry.
Fallen prey to his own beliefs.
Markets are prey to group think.
Some sufferers fall prey to quackery.
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