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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cormorant
Noun
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Costumes of cartoon characters and puffy pigs, leopard outfits, Halloween masks and fuzzy hats.—
Suzette Hackney,
USA Today,
13 Oct. 2025
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When tests showed the condition was worsening, the team removed the pig liver on day 38.—
Humberto Basilio,
Scientific American,
10 Oct. 2025
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The animals are difficult to survey, but experts estimate that the United States is now home to at least six million feral hogs, descendants of those early farm animals and Eurasian wild boars that arrived later.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Decades before the internet, Gunness exploited men’s loneliness — luring them to her hog farm with the promise of romance and sending many to a shallow grave beneath the Indiana soil.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Cormorant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cormorant. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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