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
Wander the windswept shoreline as waves break at your feet and Brandt’s cormorants wheel through the air.
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Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
The pelicans on the water, the diving cormorants and circling ospreys, the stalking great blue herons in the shallows — all are reminders of what’s at stake for Pitt and for the West.
—Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
Early indications, as the paddlers approached, were that the breakwaters had done an exceptional job, at least, of recruiting gulls and cormorants.
—Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 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
Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
The pelicans on the water, the diving cormorants and circling ospreys, the stalking great blue herons in the shallows — all are reminders of what’s at stake for Pitt and for the West.
—Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
Early indications, as the paddlers approached, were that the breakwaters had done an exceptional job, at least, of recruiting gulls and cormorants.
—Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 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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Per the notice in the Star, at least 150 men were expected to attend, and a local man named John Bertermann provided the pigs for the evening.—
Bradley Hohulin,
IndyStar,
6 Mar. 2026
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The farm was previously owned by her grandparents, who Dowle said owned several agriculture businesses through the years, from a fruit stand to a cattle dairy to pigs, calves and chickens.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Roses should not be seen as nutrient hogs, because that’s simply not true.—
Rita Perwich,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Mar. 2026
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Media hogs will be happy to learn that Apple doubled the base storage from 128GB to 256GB without changing the price.—
Eric Zeman,
PC Magazine,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Cormorants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cormorants. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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