CORMORANTS Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

cormorants

noun

plural of cormorant

as in pigs

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 cormorants In the latest case, Haggerty and Caroline Petrow-Cohen report for The Times, dozens of dead cormorants washed ashore on Venice Beach. — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026 Brown pelicans, double-crested cormorants, western gulls, and more than two dozen other species stop over on Anacapa. — Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Aug. 2026 For millennia, millions of seabirds, including guanay cormorants, Peruvian boobies and pelicans, had nested on rocky outcrops along South America’s arid Pacific coast. — Edward D. Melillo, Fortune, 27 July 2026 Eagles, egrets, cormorants and herons are fishing, too. — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 25 June 2026 The team mapped cormorants’ nests in the cliffs above La Jolla Cove and saw the first eggs of the year in January. — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2026 Our view looked out over a small pond—perfect for birding, as cormorants regularly took up post on a tree there—and the ocean beyond. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 May 2026 Among its meanders, islands and beaches, there are storks, herons, cormorants and kingfishers. — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 6 May 2026 Many other birds make their home here, including bald eagles and cormorants. — Kara Williams, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026

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Noun

The latter is a flexible, breathable hide of pigs and has been used to make products such as shoes, purses, wallets and early forms of sports equipment.

— Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026
The Faaborgfamily recently transitioned from pigs to mushrooms with technical and financial support from The Transfarmation Project, an initiative of the charitable organization, Mercy for Animals.

— Rachel Cramer, NPR, 21 Sep. 2026

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But raising hogs was physically demanding work and became less profitable for the family over time, Faaborg said.

— Rachel Cramer, NPR, 21 Sep. 2026
In the public imagination, Housewives with a capital H are fame-hungry attention hogs who would rather throw the $400 bottle of Château Brane-Cantenac Margaux that’s sitting in front of us than sip it, as Cosby is hesitantly doing now.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026

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