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prey on

Hunt, especially in order to eat, as in Their cat preys on all the rodents in the neighborhood . [c. 1600]
Exert a baneful or injurious effect, as in Guilt preyed on his mind . [c. 1700]
Plunder or pillage; also, make a profit at someone else's expense, victimize. For example, Vikings preyed on the coastal towns of England , or The rich have been preying on the poor for centuries . [Late 1500s]

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One of Henry’s powers is to prey on the traumatic fears of his perceived enemies, and “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” is able to summon a theater critic’s horrific vision of a Broadway age in which sense is utterly disregarded for violent sensation.

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In “Drop,” Landon, Roach and Jacobs all prey on the viewer’s obscured worry that they’re losing control in a tech-forward world.

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Sentencing Westwood at Wolverhampton Crown Court, Judge Neil Chawla said: "You used your minor celebrity status as an actor to prey on impressionable, innocent, and naive young girls."

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From the 1970s onwards, Smyth was a prominent figure in a Church-linked movement, and used his position to inflict sustained beatings for his own sexual gratification on boys and young men he would prey on at Christian camps and schools.

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Far-right influencers and talking heads quickly learned to prey on pliant minds, disseminating untruths via short-form video content that users would see as factual.

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