as in hog
one who eats greedily or too much
all-you-can-eat buffets seem to encourage some people to become shameless pigs
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Recent Examples of pig
Making the most of their pig tissue from the local abattoir, Ahmed’s team also showed how the material could grip.
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Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2025
There, students can learn about farming with a garden, live pigs and poultry.
—Liam Adams, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2025
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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Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2025
There, students can learn about farming with a garden, live pigs and poultry.
—Liam Adams, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pig
hog
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Penny has reported on everything from national civil rights issues to hog farming in Illinois, Georgia, Texas and now Arkansas.—
Penny Weaver,
Arkansas Online,
30 Oct. 2025
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He was baffled as if there does not appear to be any point of access for an animal the size of a ground hog.—
Chris McKeown,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Pig.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pig. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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