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hogged

verb

past tense of hog

as in monopolized

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Dishwasher racks are valuable real estate that shouldn’t be monopolized by your cat and his Fancy Feast.

— John Hodgman, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
At times of heightened tensions, the Houthis have used the Bab el-Mandeb as a geopolitical bargaining tool, disrupting the passage of trade in a similar fashion to how Tehran has monopolized the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the Iran war.

— Tiago Ventura, Time, 16 July 2026

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Only later did doctors realize that the genetic material had probably come from a mushroom that the patient had consumed, and not from a pathogen.

— Jason Liebowitz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2026
Moisture is the biggest concern because damp tea bags can develop mold and should not be consumed.

— Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 25 Aug. 2026

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In one inexhaustible untitled image from 1980, the couple sits in elegant dress at a candlelit table engrossed in each other’s company, while the young, shirtless son adjusts the channel on a television perched on the near side of the same table.

— Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
After traveling to Oakland from Colorado, Lori Schott read aloud a diary entry from her daughter, Annalee, who died by suicide at 18 after becoming engrossed with Meta’s apps.

— Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026

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