as in pig
one who eats greedily or too much
if I had known that my guests were going to be such hogs, I would have prepared twice as much food
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Recent Examples of hog
Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
At Uke's Harley-Davidson, the Riding Academy continues to teach new riders how to handle a hog.
—Ricardo Torres, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 13 Mar. 2026
Evans, to the end of his days, said Francis just wanted to hog the acclaim to himself.
—Paul Fischer, HollywoodReporter, 12 Mar. 2026
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Noun
Aren't there natural predators challenging feral hogs?
—Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
At Uke's Harley-Davidson, the Riding Academy continues to teach new riders how to handle a hog.
—Ricardo Torres, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
Verb
Even if your home's curb appeal leaves a good impression, a dirty sidewalk can hog the spotlight.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 13 Mar. 2026
Evans, to the end of his days, said Francis just wanted to hog the acclaim to himself.
—Paul Fischer, HollywoodReporter, 12 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hog
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
Verb
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Without that market competition, the plaintiffs argued, gamers were coerced into paying higher prices, effectively allowing Sony to monopolize the sale of its digital PlayStation games.—
Drew Pittock,
USA Today,
4 May 2026
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Yemen monopolized the coffee trade for around 200 years until Dutch merchants smuggled coffee seeds to Indonesia and began growing plants there.—
Dee-Ann Durbin,
Los Angeles Times,
4 May 2026
Verb
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The Dolphins say their plan wasn’t to corner the market on Texas Longhorns.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
28 Apr. 2026
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So Johnson reconfigured the Spurs’ spacing in the second half to put Wembanyama at the elbow and corner off the ball, often bunched up with a teammate, in an attempt to pull Portland’s centers away from the paint.—
Christian Clark,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Yet she isn’t allowed to bogart the apercus; each of the characters gets a chance to shine, though some all but cry out for larger parts, larger lily pads on which to brood.—
Rhoda Feng,
Washington Post,
19 Mar. 2024
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In Schutz’s attempt to reflect reality, her own gestures bogart the image, reopening a decades-old wound without bringing a new dimension of understanding to it.—
Kimberly Drew,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2022
Verb
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According to the World Instant Noodles Association, Americans consumed over 5 billion servings of instant noodles in 2024.—
Nina Moskowitz,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
3 May 2026
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The closest institutional precedent is the International Energy Agency itself, founded in 1974 explicitly as a consuming-nations counterweight to OPEC.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
2 May 2026
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“Hog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hog. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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