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Recent Examples of glutton
Ever a glutton for executive orders, Trump has signed nearly 70 so far.
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Nicole Russell, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
The Suns may thwart a fast break, but end up with a tiny guard trying to keep a glass glutton off the boards.
—Fred Katz, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
In the early 1980s, in the 1990s, returning like a malarial fever, the enemy was the Medfly, the Mediterranean fruit fly — pest, parasite, glutton for our golden harvests, despoiler of sunny citrus and rosy peaches, murderer of guacamole avocados.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
Rough Road Bikes: A trio of steeds for the path less taken.
Road Runners: Six pairs of pavement gluttons.
—Christine Byrne, Outside Online, 14 July 2021
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Nicole Russell, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
The Suns may thwart a fast break, but end up with a tiny guard trying to keep a glass glutton off the boards.
—Fred Katz, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
In the early 1980s, in the 1990s, returning like a malarial fever, the enemy was the Medfly, the Mediterranean fruit fly — pest, parasite, glutton for our golden harvests, despoiler of sunny citrus and rosy peaches, murderer of guacamole avocados.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
Rough Road Bikes: A trio of steeds for the path less taken.
Road Runners: Six pairs of pavement gluttons.
—Christine Byrne, Outside Online, 14 July 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for glutton
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The Chinese zodiac cycles between 12 animals — the rat, the ox, the tiger, the rabbit, the dragon, the snake, the horse, the goat, the monkey, the rooster, the dog, and the pig.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
22 Feb. 2026
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My parents were known for their epic new year party, my mom making hundreds of dumplings by hand, often supplementing that with a whole suckling pig and endless bottles of baijiu, a powerful sorghum liquor.—
Natasha Pickowicz,
Vogue,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Pigs possess complex social dynamics but spend their entire short life crowded into hog houses.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
24 Feb. 2026
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State Highway 130 has a stretch with a speed limit of eighty-five miles an hour, the highest in the country; the night the road opened, three cars crashed into feral hogs.—
Tad Friend,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Glutton.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glutton. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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