as in pig
one who eats greedily or too much
Diamond Jim Brady was perhaps the most celebrated cormorant of the Gilded Age
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Recent Examples of cormorant
Sea lion pups are nursing, playing and learning to swim and there are baby pelicans and cormorants all along the cliffs.
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Monica Deeks, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
Population control, which sadly includes cormorant culls, has allowed the tree canopy to rebound and at-risk plant species to gain a foothold, but cormorant consensus has been difficult to find.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 23 June 2025
Salton Sea: In the May 25 California section, an article about efforts to create new wetlands at the Salton Sea referred to double-crested cormorants as double-breasted cormorants.
—Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2025
The company logo is the cormorant—the bird from the hat and William’s drawings that served as an early mystery; it was believed that someone wearing a hat with the same logo was responsible for kidnapping Merritt.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 29 May 2025
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Monica Deeks, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
Population control, which sadly includes cormorant culls, has allowed the tree canopy to rebound and at-risk plant species to gain a foothold, but cormorant consensus has been difficult to find.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 23 June 2025
Salton Sea: In the May 25 California section, an article about efforts to create new wetlands at the Salton Sea referred to double-crested cormorants as double-breasted cormorants.
—Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2025
The company logo is the cormorant—the bird from the hat and William’s drawings that served as an early mystery; it was believed that someone wearing a hat with the same logo was responsible for kidnapping Merritt.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 29 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for cormorant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cormorant
Noun
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Born on a pig farm in small-town Minnesota, Lehmann is an alum of Harvard University and UCB who frequently develops for TV, having most recently sold half-hour sitcoms to CBS, ABC, and Freeform.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
29 Sep. 2025
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Her radical friend Anja, however, goes too far, poisoning pig feed with a strange black liquid that gradually turns the pigs into bloodthirsty zombies.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
27 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The United Soybean Board is investing in research into the benefits of using soybeans to feed dairy cows and hogs.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
27 Sep. 2025
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To work them to death no more a sin than to butcher a hog.—
Greg Grandin
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Cormorant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cormorant. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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