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Verb(1) (2) eat human flesh(3) use parts of something to repair something else(4) salvage

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(1) 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.(2) u2018With the Escape we wanted to attract different customers, but we don't want to cannibalize Explorer sales,u2019 Takasawa says.(3) 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.(4) This may occur if females cannibalize their dead brothers or are prevented from inbreeding or competing with them.(5) Levi Strauss launched its Signature discount jeans in 2003, insisting they wouldn't cannibalize Levi's Red Tab department-store jeans.(6) Females begin to cannibalize males during the first copulation, but males usually survive and achieve a second copulation following a second period of courtship.(7) 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.(8) Many industry insiders are concerned that Budweiser Select, for example, will only cannibalize sales of established brands like Bud Light.(9) female spiders cannibalize courting males(10) Companies that cannibalize their own business lines by offering something better are much less likely to be eaten alive by the outside competition.(11) But other perils may have awaited his tadpoles: researchers have found that despite their paternal inclinations, male African bullfrogs sometimes cannibalize their young.(12) 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.(13) female spiders cannibalize courting males(14) Most females proceed to cannibalize the male during copulation (for details on the copulatory sequence, see Forster 1995).(15) This venture indicates that GE may be willing to cannibalize its own businesses rather than lose to a competitor.(16) the suppliers did not want to cannibalize high-margin business with low-margin sales