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also 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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Recent Examples of hogs
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
Verb
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hogs
Noun
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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
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Visit ostriches, emus, llamas, pigs, and more.—
Maggie Downs,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Oct. 2025
Verb
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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
Verb
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Art that moves you, love that consumes you, moments that feel like magic.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
19 Oct. 2025
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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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