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n. - Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals.

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  • No science fiction convention, no pimping art, no pirana puppy.
  • Sheesh: If you are going to risk your career, wouldn't you find something less, pirana-like, to blow it on?
  • He screamed until his throat burst and with parted jaws, I consumed his history like a school of starving pirana.
  • And those of us who do our best to raise mindful, empathic, self-regulated individuals have to throw them into the pirana pool at some point in their tender lives.
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