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variants also hog
plural of hog
as in pigs
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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hogs

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verb

present tense third-person singular of hog

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Similarly, frog, hog, pig and stag. Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025 The animals are difficult to survey, but experts estimate that the United States is now home to at least six million feral hogs, descendants of those early farm animals and Eurasian wild boars that arrived later. New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025 Decades before the internet, Gunness exploited men’s loneliness — luring them to her hog farm with the promise of romance and sending many to a shallow grave beneath the Indiana soil. Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025 Of those, the majority are dairy, but the state also has hog, beef, chicken and turkey CAFOs. Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 9 Oct. 2025 Penny has reported on everything from national civil rights issues to hog farming in Illinois, Georgia, Texas and now Arkansas. Penny Weaver, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2025 The United Soybean Board is investing in research into the benefits of using soybeans to feed dairy cows and hogs. Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025 While not native to Florida, wild hogs, also called feral hogs, feral swine, feral pigs, wild boar, wild pigs or piney woods rooter, live in all 67 Florida counties, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife (FWC). Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025 He was accused of operating an unlicensed hog farm on his property and disposing hog manure in nearby lagoons. Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • Tiny tech, vast reach In animal experiments conducted at a research facility in Paris, the team successfully guided MagFlow through the intricate arteries of pigs’ heads, necks, and spines, safely delivering contrast and embolizing agents to highly curved and narrow vessels.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Visit ostriches, emus, llamas, pigs, and more.
    Maggie Downs, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2025
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  • This helps ensure that no one monopolizes the event and that the more reserved employees have a chance to share.
    Chintan Shah, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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  • Art that moves you, love that consumes you, moments that feel like magic.
    Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Altman previously said the average ChatGPT query consumes as much energy as a lightbulb would in a couple of minutes.
    Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025

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“Hogs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hogs. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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