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An example use of prey in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… working very closely with prey now the …”
Prey is a noun meaning a hunted animal.
the word prey occurs in english on average 16.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that prey can be often used in the following areas:
1) life, nature, and living environment;