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Recent Examples of moggy
Soon a second cat show was organized, this time permitting working men and women to enter their moggies for display.
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Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
Trucker reunited with cat A US trucker was reunited with his cat after the moggy fled from his vehicle during a pit stop at a truck stop in Nevada.
—Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 9 Jan. 2024
Diodorus Siculus, a Greek author who wrote in the first century A.D., recounts the tale of a Roman soldier who made the mistake of killing a sacred moggy in Egypt.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2022
Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
Trucker reunited with cat A US trucker was reunited with his cat after the moggy fled from his vehicle during a pit stop at a truck stop in Nevada.
—Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 9 Jan. 2024
Diodorus Siculus, a Greek author who wrote in the first century A.D., recounts the tale of a Roman soldier who made the mistake of killing a sacred moggy in Egypt.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moggy
Noun
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This relative of catnip (Nepeta cataria) has some of the same bewitching effects on cats, but this species has more attractive flowers, blooming from May until September.—
Angela England,
The Spruce,
22 Feb. 2026
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The cat jumped up onto the bed and lay with him.—
Mary Gaitskill,
New Yorker,
22 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Or, your child may decide to volunteer at a soup kitchen or write a letter to the firehouse, thanking firefighters for rescuing kittens.—
Catherine Newman,
Parents,
22 Feb. 2026
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Nationwide, the first successful prosecution happened in 2016 when a Houston man was sentenced to five years for creating videos that featured a woman mutilating and killing puppies, chickens and kittens and distributing them on the internet.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Self-defense items such as mace, kitty claws, or brass knuckles will be detected and surely require additional screening.—
Jillian Dara,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Feb. 2026
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One of Bernhardt’s pets, Uriah, is the shop cat, and spends her days greeting and playing with customers and basking in the sunshine in her kitty hammock, which overlooks the parking lot from a plate glass window.—
Emily M. Olson,
Hartford Courant,
12 Feb. 2026
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“Moggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moggy. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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