How To Use Cannibalise In A Sentence
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Within our newsroom, many expressed fears we would cannibalize the newspaper.
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We did that even though we're the largest producers of personal computers, because if we don't cannibalize our own product line, somebody else will.
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And if we were to be cannibalized, who better to do it than us?
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It has posted four consecutive quarters of declining same-store sales, with overexpansion causing its Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy divisions to cannibalize sales.
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Within our newsroom, many expressed fears we would cannibalize the newspaper.
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One theory is that, as the company opens more stores, nearby outlets are starting to cannibalize each other.
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Pumps at the others have been cannibalised for parts, which causes further overgrazing at those wells in working order.
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We got cannibalized, just not by ourselves," Mr. Simon said.
Wal-Mart Looks on Course to End Sales Slump
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This underwater fleet rapidly surfaced and diminished as vessels were cannibalized to keep their sister craft operational.
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Females begin to cannibalize males during the first copulation, but males usually survive and achieve a second copulation following a second period of courtship.
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This venture indicates that GE may be willing to cannibalize its own businesses rather than lose to a competitor.
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One theory is that, as the company opens more stores, nearby outlets are starting to cannibalize each other.
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The story is actually two chapters cannibalized from the novel I'd been commissioned to write -- a few years ago a Spanish publisher gave me a contract for my first novel, anything I wanted to write as long as it was contemporary and urban (preferably set in Spain) and had both a gay male and a strong straight female main character, but my editor left the company when I was only halfway through it, and the editor who took over set about canceling numerous of his predecessor's contracts, including mine (they did pay me the second half of the advance, though).
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Mitsubishi takes fifth place, too, with the Spacewagon, although it looks as if its sales are being cannibalised by the smaller Spacestar.
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And if we were to be cannibalized, who better to do it than us?
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This was originally a cheap Tandy keyboard which I cannibalised.
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The planes recently were scheduled to be "cannibalized" so the DEA could sell the parts and recover as much of its money as possible.
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Instead, males that mate with mated females increase their fertilization success by being cannibalized.
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Twelve thousand were cannibalized for spare parts, leaving 8,000 for reconditioning and resale or rental.
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They can sell to Canada at close to marginal cost and cannibalize profitable sales in the US; or they can let Canadian generic manufacturers do it for them.
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He cannibalized his old bicycle to repair his tricycle.
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The more dilapidated eastern end of the Turbine building was partly stripped and cannibalised for other parts of the building.
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The Mac maker would certainly need to be sure that MacOS X for Intel wouldn't cannibalise its hardware sales, as the availability of the OS running on a 1.5GHz AMD Athlon box might well do.
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Within our newsroom, many expressed fears we would cannibalize the newspaper.
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No male was cannibalized during the experiment, although the female had several opportunities to do so.
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The airport runway is lined with the rusted wrecks of other planes cannibalized for parts.
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One theory is that, as the company opens more stores, nearby outlets are starting to cannibalize each other.
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Broken-down trucks were scavenged for usable parts and left by the roadside. Artillery units cannibalised parts from captured guns to keep their howitzers operating.
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In recent months, the airline has been forced to cannibalise its existing fleet to provide spare parts.
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While it seems like telcos are beginning to recognize what's happening in the world out there, it's still interesting to see a telco CEO so clearly recognize the need to cannibalize its own best businesses.
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The team's old minicomputer is gone, long since cannibalized for parts, but Hulse does retain his original printouts, on newspaper-like green paper.
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They'll be waiting for about a year into the GMT 900 production to bring out the hybrid versions so as to not cannibalize conventional internal combustion engine sales.
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And if we were to be cannibalized, who better to do it than us?
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If western forces believe that we can restore security to the nation under a Karzai government without eradicating the kind of fascistic tendencies of the elected legislature, it will cannibalize itself from the inside out and return to just another female apartheidist Islamic state.
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As a spare parts resource, the mechanics cannibalized a Ju52 built for Lufthansa during the war and used as a military transport aircraft in Norway.
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Mr. Reynolds acknowledges that pop has long cannibalized its own past—recall the '50s craze of the '70s, or the early '80s Doors revival.
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Levi Strauss launched its Signature discount jeans in 2003, insisting they wouldn't cannibalize Levi's Red Tab department-store jeans.
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A website need not cannibalise existing sales.
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With no time for foraging, males sometimes cannibalize some of the eggs under their care.
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Meanwhile, tanks and other machinery had to be cannibalised to provide spare parts for front-line equipment.
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In ever-increasing numbers, kids are being encouraged to box, golf, dance and climb, to play more cricket, football, tennis and, for all we know, shove-halfpenny, by a generation that has seen sport cannibalised into a grotesque commercial monster.
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He bought an old engine and cannibalized it for spare parts.
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The more dilapidated eastern end of the Turbine building was partly stripped and cannibalised for other parts of the building.
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Twenty three dead animals were removed from the premises, some of them had cannibalised each other.
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The split favours both films because they can't cannibalise each other.
Paramount has the last laugh with Jackass 3D
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He cannibalized his old bicycle to repair his tricycle.
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He estimated that an average slate could sell for $700, creating a downside where netbooks and laptops see their sales cannibalized.
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The resulting embryos were allowed to develop in laboratory dishes for several days before the scientists cannibalised them to extract embryonic stem cells.
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And the Farnley Flyer, a machine whose chassis was cannibalised from two BMX bikes rescued from a dump by pupils from Farnley Park High School, Leeds, outstripped the field to win by a clear margin.
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When females encounter larvae more than 20 h before their own larvae hatch, they invariably kill these larvae, and some females cannibalize larvae hatching 9-12 h before their own.
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So we believe that really this ABThera system will cannibalize what's called the barker system, which is really the standard of care for treating those patients today.
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Oracle is also very reluctant to talk about product roadmaps for fear that future products will cannibalize existing ones.
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Many industry insiders are concerned that Budweiser Select, for example, will only cannibalize sales of established brands like Bud Light.
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The truck was cannibalized for parts.
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Grasshoppers require humane treatment when they are farmed, because if they are overcrowded or stressed, they cannibalise each other.
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While Cyclo Nord-Sud focuses exclusively on helping people in the South, one cycling group with a local angle is SOS Vélo, now issuing a call-out for decrepit bikes that will be cannibalized and transformed into workable wheels.
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Most of the craft had been cannibalized and ripped apart.
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Most females proceed to cannibalize the male during copulation (for details on the copulatory sequence, see Forster 1995).
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As Colorado State coach Tim Miles put it, the conference has "cannibalized" itself.
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Old buildings should be cannibalised for reusable material like wood, brick and stone.
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Instead, ground crews cannibalized what they needed to keep other planes in service.
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Inside the coprolites, pieces of T. rex bone were found, indicating that the dinosaur in question had cannibalized - either through attacking or scavenging - another T. rex.
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Because they want to cannibalize the unknown; to leave the chemicals, the furniture and, yes, the shrew behind; to make their way hi ho into the brush, whose weeds and lianas remain empty of the exhortations of Jesus Christ, whose roots and trunks have never felt the sappy coagulant candle-wax, whose steam rises solely from the exhalation of leaf and beast and man, and never from the bang of the Stanley engine.
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In the female present experiment, males might disappear if they left the web or if they mated and were cannibalized, but male disappearance in the female absent experiment could only represent male abandonment of the female web.
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Egg-laying hens are housed in 18-by - 24-inch cages with wire bottoms, often with their beaks removed, because mad chickens have been known to cannibalize each other.
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If the first male was cannibalized and thus could not guard the female, the second male always reached the female and was significantly more likely to mate.
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These details support the theory that the two stars are close enough for accretion to take place and that the companion star is being cannibalised.
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He stopped short of suggesting that the iPad has started to cannibalize the notebook market.
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Network operators have been notoriously reluctant to allow Skype services on their mobile handsets, fearing it will cannibalise revenue earned from traditional voice calls.
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The golden orb-web spider Nephila plumipes frequently cannibalizes males both before and during copulation.
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After 11 years of Margaret Thatcher, it proved necessary to cannibalise the entire armoured resources of the Rhine Army to deploy a weak division for the First Gulf War.
The Tory defence policy will be simple: cut, brutally
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(Also) I think we need to be careful about the use of the word 'cannibalise' which brings with it an imputation of bad behaviour.
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But other perils may have awaited his tadpoles: researchers have found that despite their paternal inclinations, male African bullfrogs sometimes cannibalize their young.
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Irresistible, her lone Motown LP, the label cannibalized some of the solo songs and remixed them into duets.
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At Gough's Cave, the human bones interpreted as cannibalised appear among an assemblage of hunted wild fauna, and display a pattern consistent with butchery for meat, including the removal of tongues.
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Schultz says that every year for the past five years, one third of all existing stores were "cannibalized" by new stores built in close proximity, a sign of its eagerness to make its $2-per-cup-of-coffee lifestyle as accessible as possible.
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They cannibalized three aircraft carriers and a number of warships to form a task force.
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It's possible, the two will cannibalise each other's markets, or that the cheaper handheld will draw complaints about the price point of the more expensive machine.
Sony announces PlayStation 3 and PSP price cuts
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Over the past decade, the Iraqis have improvised and cannibalized their obsolescent aircraft, tanks, armored personnel carriers, and air defense network to keep them going.
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This may occur if females cannibalize their dead brothers or are prevented from inbreeding or competing with them.
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And if we were to be cannibalized, who better to do it than us?
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But so much of U.S. farmland is already in production that some acres might have to be cannibalized from other crops, potentially tightening supplies of other commodities.
Crop Shocker Ripples Through Markets
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They cannibalized three aircraft carriers and a number of warships to form a task force.
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Within our newsroom, many expressed fears we would cannibalize the newspaper.
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cannibalise" when asking about the possibility super clinics would poach doctors.
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Companies that cannibalize their own business lines by offering something better are much less likely to be eaten alive by the outside competition.
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The airport runway is lined with the rusted wrecks of other planes cannibalized for parts.
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An unspecified number of military aircraft were grounded after they were "cannibalized" for spares to keep other planes airborne.
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Nest-tending parentals that are cuckolded more provide less care to their young and are more likely to partially cannibalize or even abandon their brood.
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‘With the Escape we wanted to attract different customers, but we don't want to cannibalize Explorer sales,’ Takasawa says.
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One theory is that, as the company opens more stores, nearby outlets are starting to cannibalize each other.
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Brin, however, says the plan would make millions of out-of-print books available online and thus would not cannibalise existing sales, as those books were not readily available to buyers.
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These details support the theory that the two stars are close enough for accretion to take place and that the companion star is being cannibalised.
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More than half the navy was not battle-ready because of cash shortages and many vessels were being cannibalised for spare parts, he said.
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Very few of the customers signing up for Boost Mobile were 'cannibalized' from regular Sprint service, the company adds.
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To sustain operational tempo in the near term, spare parts are cannibalized from working equipment.
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Additionally, larger males may be more attractive prey items than smaller males, and hence more frequently cannibalized.
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cannibalise" doctors and patients from existing general practices.
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