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easy prey

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easy
adjective
uk /ˈiː.zi/ us /ˈiː.zi/
needing ...
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prey
noun[U]
uk /preɪ/ us /preɪ/
an animal that is hunted and killed for food by ...
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Deploying the common rhetoric of melodrama, the bill's opponents insisted that women were fragile creatures, the easyprey of libertines and seducers.
Affluent merchants were easyprey to the local regimes, which, in their attempts to survive, acted as greedy wolves.
The proud mufti, now with an established scholarly reputation and a long record of loyalty to the state, was not easyprey.
Multiple identities and genuinely democratic political structures and cultural institutions are easyprey to the ethnic nation-state project, especially when the latter legitimises itself by reference to external threat.
Naturally these are sensitive issues, which are easyprey for polemic and misunderstanding.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Our homes would be left an easyprey, open to invasion or other attack.
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In my constituency young people are easyprey to the hard drug pushers.
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The answer to that, it will be said, is that in war-time those ships are no good, because they are an easyprey for submarines.
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The armies of refugees, camping in open fields or in tents, are easyprey to these pandemics.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The desperate economic situation in their own countries forces many women to clutch at any straw, which makes them easyprey for the traffickers.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
He said that the policy holders were an easyprey to the insurance agents, who induced them to become policy holders by unfair methods.
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Our homes would be left an easyprey, open to invasion or attack.
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But transports are an enormous hindrance to an enemy, and are liable to become easyprey for attack by small craft.
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Such people are easyprey and can be duped into signing for something for which they cannot deliver the repayments.
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People become easyprey for the hard drug pushers and have no logical reason not to go on and commit a crime.
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That leads to the nonsense that make such easyprey for antimarketeers.
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They fall an easyprey to the apostles of disorder and class hatred.
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Also, when a woman is forced by poverty to sell her eggs, she becomes easyprey for organised criminal networks.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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