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Like The White Lotus except if the whole thing took place at the hotel restaurant, The Menu finds its cast of characters — much of them rich and status-chasing — to be easy pickings for satirizing.
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Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2023
Infected shrimp typically become sluggish and spend more time exposed in the open marsh, easy pickings for hungry birds.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Sep. 2023
In contrast, clones are easy pickings for a parasite.
—Joann C Gutin, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Those waters also provide an abundance of easy pickings for amateur hunters.
—Gina Errico, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
Our ancestors simply took advantage of the deceased as easy pickings—at least during earlier stages of our evolution.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
But those many decades living without predators ruined their flight response, and the horses became easy pickings for mountain lions and other predators.
—Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2022
Every show is different and exciting, and the jokes are easy pickings.
—Mitra Ahouraian, Forbes, 13 June 2022
But cartoons and ballads show that his sufferings were used as propaganda by Britons eager for war with Spain, seen as a declining power whose empire offered easy pickings.
—Stephen Brumwell, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2023
Infected shrimp typically become sluggish and spend more time exposed in the open marsh, easy pickings for hungry birds.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Sep. 2023
In contrast, clones are easy pickings for a parasite.
—Joann C Gutin, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Those waters also provide an abundance of easy pickings for amateur hunters.
—Gina Errico, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
Our ancestors simply took advantage of the deceased as easy pickings—at least during earlier stages of our evolution.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
But those many decades living without predators ruined their flight response, and the horses became easy pickings for mountain lions and other predators.
—Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2022
Every show is different and exciting, and the jokes are easy pickings.
—Mitra Ahouraian, Forbes, 13 June 2022
But cartoons and ballads show that his sufferings were used as propaganda by Britons eager for war with Spain, seen as a declining power whose empire offered easy pickings.
—Stephen Brumwell, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
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