hoarder

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Recent Examples of hoarder Crews started an aggressive attack and searched the home, with the effort complicated by hoarder-like conditions. Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026 And her grandmother was a straight-up hoarder, living in this hoard house. Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Jan. 2026 Weaver plays Grandma Helen, the matriarch of the family and mother of Gavin and Abbi’s deceased father, who was an obsessive hoarder. Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 11 Nov. 2025 His house has become borderline hoarder for several years. R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hoarder
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hoarder
Noun
  • The other three account types will permit savers to make withdrawals and deposits as needed, but the accounts will employ a variable rate that will change based on market conditions.
    Matt Richardson, CBS News, 18 June 2026
  • The distance between $167,970 and $44,115 is the architecture of American inequality, expressed in retirement savings data—a small cohort of high-balance savers dragging the average skyward while the rest of the country lives in the median.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 17 June 2026
Noun
  • Any pack rat knows that the best wardrobes are beautiful pieces of furniture that hide the hellish contents within.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The salt mine is also pack rat Hollywood’s basement.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Equally vital, aging misers addicted to their vocations need palliatives and surrogates for the drug of importance.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • Francesca Fiorentini, a comedian and podcaster, compared Steyer to Charles Dickens’ fictional miser Ebenezer Scrooge.
    Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026

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“Hoarder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hoarder. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.

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