hoarder

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Recent Examples of hoarder Without a structured sunset plan, your road map is more like a hoarder’s house: new things layered over old, with a foundation that can no longer support innovation. Rohit Ayyagari, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025 In the scene, Egerton’s character navigates a hoarder’s house overtaken by flames. Jp Mangalindan, Time, 4 June 2025 As supplies become concentrated in the hands of hoarders, patients who genuinely need certain medications face difficulties obtaining them. Steve Brozak, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025 And anyone who’s had to keep his life’s possessions in such a place has probably had to fend off that nasty little cough of a word: hoarder. Nathan King, Architectural Digest, 17 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hoarder
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Noun
  • Other than the knife and a wooden artifact found in a pack rat’s nest, thought to be the shaft of an atlatl dart-throwing tool, no human artifacts or remains were ever found there.
    Michael Ray Taylor, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2025
  • The pack rat, whose entire yard is filled with stuff — a total junkyard.
    Chi Varnado, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • But as the legend grew, so did the myths — such as that of Comiskey being a miser, forcing his players to seek compensation through gamblers.
    Ronald Blum, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
  • Julia Soares, an assistant professor of cognitive science at Mississippi State University, said this tendency aligns with the decades-old social science concept of the cognitive miser.
    Celia Ford, Vox, 10 Mar. 2025

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“Hoarder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hoarder. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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