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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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The finished product depicted a pig standing in grass, with the dog's nose print serving as the focal point.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
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With his shoulder-length hair tucked under his signature trucker hat and a glass of wine in hand, Henegan works the room, stopping at every other table to give a hug or tell a story about his days rubbing elbows with celebrities or splitting martinis and oysters at the bar with his pet pig.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
1 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Later in episode 10, Peggy wants to invest her portion of her nest egg in a wild pig-hunting business in order to clear Redcorn’s farm of invasive feral hogs.—
Jake Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Aug. 2025
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Wallace is a goat-owning, hog-hunting, anime-loving, fast-talking personification of energy.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Glutton.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glutton. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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