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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Tiny tech, vast reach In animal experiments conducted at a research facility in Paris, the team successfully guided MagFlow through the intricate arteries of pigs’ heads, necks, and spines, safely delivering contrast and embolizing agents to highly curved and narrow vessels.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Oct. 2025
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Visit ostriches, emus, llamas, pigs, and more.—
Maggie Downs,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Similarly, frog, hog, pig and stag.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 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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“Cormorants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cormorants. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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