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
The image was captured in January in La Jolla, California, when cormorants were building their nests.
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Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Sea lion pups are nursing, playing and learning to swim and there are baby pelicans and cormorants all along the cliffs.
—Monica Deeks, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Sea lion pups are nursing, playing and learning to swim and there are baby pelicans and cormorants all along the cliffs.
—Monica Deeks, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cormorants
Noun
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Corn was known for feeding farm animals, like chickens and pigs.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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There, students can learn about farming with a garden, live pigs and poultry.—
Liam Adams,
Nashville Tennessean,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Penny has reported on everything from national civil rights issues to hog farming in Illinois, Georgia, Texas and now Arkansas.—
Penny Weaver,
Arkansas Online,
30 Oct. 2025
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He was baffled as if there does not appear to be any point of access for an animal the size of a ground hog.—
Chris McKeown,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Cormorants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cormorants. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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