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noun

as in smuggling

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verb

present participle of poach

as in boiling

to cook in a liquid heated to the point that it gives off steam poaching fish in a stock flavored with white wine

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Recent Examples of poaching

Noun

Clouded leopards are native to South and Southeast Asia and classified as vulnerable due to severe habitat loss and poaching. — Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026 Boiling or poaching are considered the healthiest ways to cook eggs, while roasting or grilling is best for chicken. — Lindsay Curtis, HEALTH, 22 Aug. 2026 Engineers blame the exodus on aggressive poaching from cash-flush rivals, frustration at falling behind on coding benchmarks, and engineers chasing pre-IPO equity before rivals go public. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026 Their primary threats are habitat loss and poaching, and wild populations have declined by at least 80 percent over three generations. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 July 2026 For most proteins and vegetables, grilling, baking, poaching, roasting, and steaming preserve nutrients while adding little to no additional fat or calories. — Sarah Anzlovar, Verywell Health, 28 July 2026 The reserve once had a diverse wildlife population but was wiped out in the early 1980s because of rampant poaching and prolonged insecurity in the country. — ABC News, 24 July 2026 In the OpenAI case, the WSJ suggested that Apple might be motivated to bring the lawsuit just to slow down either OpenAI’s device development or the poaching of its employees. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026 Today, most poaching in the area is done not for elephant tusks or rhino horn, as in the past, but for bushmeat, particularly zebra, buffalo, and giraffe. — Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026

Verb

Some pessimists think Chalamet may be vulnerable to poaching given recent headlines, but others reject the idea. — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026 That’s why Miami needs to be aggressive trying to find a competent backup center, guard and tackle on the waiver wire via trades and through practice squad poaching. — Omar Kelly august 24, Miami Herald, 24 Aug. 2026 Hickey’s case comes to light on the heels of another poaching case also involving hunting content creators out of Ohio. — Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2026 Recipe Tips for Shrimp Remoulade Use a liquid crab boil, like Zatarain’s brand, for the poaching liquid. — Marianne Williams, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2026 The iconic insect-eating plants are native to remote parts of coastal North and South Carolina, and are a popular target of poaching for the global black market. — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 20 Aug. 2026 How Long to Boil a Chicken For boiling or poaching a whole chicken or its pieces, cook until the meat easily falls off the bones. — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2026 Over the past decade of DPP rule, Beijing has restricted imports of Taiwanese goods and limited free-spending tourist arrivals, while poaching 10 of Taiwan’s diplomatic allies, so that only 12 remain. — Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Aug. 2026 Kenya has until recently been widely recognized for rebuilding its elephant population from historic lows to more than 36,000 individuals by reducing poaching and protecting elephants. — ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for poaching

Noun

Other deportees had convictions or arrests involving violent assault, domestic violence, drugs, burglary and theft, weapons offense alien smuggling and other crimes.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026
Prosecutors in Taiwan have indicted an Nvidia manager, along with eight others, for violating export controls and smuggling cutting-edge AI chips to China.

— Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of smuggling

Verb

Mix yeast, 2 cups flour and salt in large mixing bowl and pour in hot water (not boiling), mixing well.

— Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
Getting that apparently trivial behavior working involved Home Assistant, MQTT, custom software, and more Claude, Codex and ChatGPT tokens than one should reasonably associate with boiling pasta.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of boiling

Noun

Cabinet members reserve almost a fifth of the government’s vaccine stockpile for themselves, and the public reacts with mass looting and violent civil unrest.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
Efforts to prevent looting had been made even before the formation of the MFAA.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 July 2026

Definition of looting

Verb

In the end, however, Mitić’s intrepid approach is undeniably bracing, and held together at its core by Kostić’s simmering performance.

— Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 30 Aug. 2026
Their simmering chemistry carries the narrative through war, hardship, romance and tragedy, set to the now-beloved score by Maurice Jarre.

— David Faris, TheWeek, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of simmering

Noun

Upon arrival, the constant chime of notifications stops, replaced by the sounds of Gulf waves, the rustling of marsh grasses, and the calls of shorebirds.

— Gabi De la Rosa, Southern Living, 19 May 2026
From the anti-Trump side, meanwhile, the American people hear a nervous rustling of vague doubts.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2026

Definition of rustling

Noun

In Nolan’s telling, his deceit and plundering portend the collapse of the Bronze Age—a foreboding warning about greedy, fading empires that feels a little too relevant.

— Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 16 July 2026
Some have traveled farther as part of colonial-era collections — as far as the British Museum — and been returned; a story unto itself about the plundering of the natural world in the age of empire, and institutions reckoning with their inheritance.

— Tom Page, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026

Definition of plundering

Noun

Chilean authorities have charged Rafael Enrique Gámez Salas, the alleged leader of Los Piratas, the main branch of Tren de Aragua in Chile, with kidnapping, extortion and criminal association, among other offenses.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
Former Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts Mike Caruso, who is facing allegations of kidnapping and molesting a child, will be freed from jail and can have contact with children, an Orlando judge ruled Friday.

— Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of kidnapping

Noun

If his decades-long track record is any indication, Sanders would be inclined to make excuses for our adversaries and look on the bright side of their repression and rapine.

— Rich Lowry, National Review, 25 Feb. 2020
There is no question about the general philosophy that underlay this great act of public pillage and economic rapine.

— Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Mar. 2013

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