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Cathleen Chen, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024
Dimon, the illustrious CEO of JPMorgan Chase, spoke of his disdain for private equity’s poaching practices during a talk last week at Georgetown University’s Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2024
Despite pleas from everyone from the Republican Governor on down to stop, the former President and his running mate have continued to falsely accuse Springfield’s Haitian community of poaching pets for meals.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 25 Sep. 2024
Since that time, achieving a Macnab (sans the poaching element)—catching an Atlantic salmon on a fly, shooting a brace of grouse, and taking a stag between dawn and dusk of the same day—has become the baseball equivalent of hitting for the cycle.
—Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
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poach
1 of 2 verbpoach
2 of 2 verbVerb
Middle English pochen "to boil an egg without its shell so that the white covers the yolk like a bag," from early French pocher (same meaning), from earlier pochier, literally, "to put into a bag," from poche "bag, pocket"
Verb
from early French pocher "to hunt or fish unlawfully"
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