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Recent Examples of glutton
Long-range gluttons are colliding with 3-point stranglers.
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Fred Katz, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Ever a glutton for executive orders, Trump has signed nearly 70 so far.
—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
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Fred Katz, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Ever a glutton for executive orders, Trump has signed nearly 70 so far.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for glutton
Noun
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That's where the idea of using pig organs comes in.—
Karen Weintraub,
USA Today,
3 May 2026
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Now Congress is moving to make sure that same process cannot happen when the animals in question are pigs, calves, or hens.—
Jesse Plunkett,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 May 2026
Noun
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But these included prices of wheat, hogs, timber, iron ore and other primary products.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
26 Apr. 2026
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These plants are notorious energy hogs, consuming nearly 4 percent of the country’s total electricity to process municipal waste.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Glutton.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glutton. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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