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Recent Examples of piggy
The optional desk-plus-hutch ($2,245) can store books, pictures, piggy banks, globes and trophies, Gruman says.
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Lindsey M. Roberts, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
The Fed’s latest spending report noted that the savings rate has declined, suggesting that consumers are keeping the party going by robbing their piggy banks.
—Greg Petro, Forbes, 2 June 2022
Their houses are piggy banks, their retirement accounts are up and their bosses are eager to please.
—New York Times, 10 May 2022
Prior to the current coloring book program, First Federal Lakewood gave away piggy banks.
—John Benson, cleveland, 20 Apr. 2022
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Lindsey M. Roberts, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
The Fed’s latest spending report noted that the savings rate has declined, suggesting that consumers are keeping the party going by robbing their piggy banks.
—Greg Petro, Forbes, 2 June 2022
Their houses are piggy banks, their retirement accounts are up and their bosses are eager to please.
—New York Times, 10 May 2022
Prior to the current coloring book program, First Federal Lakewood gave away piggy banks.
—John Benson, cleveland, 20 Apr. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for piggy
Adjective
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Rogen lands a few funny lines, but the jokes mostly serve to distract from the point of the story: that freedom is ephemeral and easily corrupted, while humans are inherently piggish (as opposed to the other way around), seizing the first opportunity to take more than their share.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
9 June 2025
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The merged generative AI model is bloated and runs extremely slowly, possibly so piggish that using it on everyday tasks is exasperating and imprudent due to enormous delays while processing.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
11 Sep. 2024
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In this, the second-to-last time Friends would celebrate November’s most gluttonous holiday, Rachel’s obnoxious sister Amy (Christina Applegate) invites herself to Thanksgiving, and the conversation turns to who would get custody of baby Emma if Rachel and Ross died.—
Brian Boone,
Vulture,
26 Nov. 2025
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Sunday brunch at Orchids is an island favorite (don’t miss the gluttonous coconut cake) and the oceanfront House Without a Key hosts nightly live music beneath a century-old kiawe tree.—
Siobhan Reid,
Vogue,
21 Nov. 2025
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Carrey portrays Ebenezer Scrooge, a cantankerous, greedy old man visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who show him the error of his ways.—
Keith Langston,
PEOPLE,
11 Dec. 2025
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The turning point in this contest, though, came when the Chiefs decided to get greedy on fourth-and-1 from their own 31-yard line.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
8 Dec. 2025
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This invasion represents the greatest tragedy that the country has suffered, which is motivated by an insatiable greed for our strategic resources.—
David Unsworth,
FOXNews.com,
3 Jan. 2026
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The Topix's gain was helped by the world's best-performing stock last year, a memory supplier called Kioxia, which surged 540%, just one sign of the AI boom's insatiable appetite for computing power.—
Steve Kopack,
NBC news,
2 Jan. 2026
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Despite the plot’s violence and death, this is not a despairing book, but a hopeful one, of Appalachian women taking back their life stories from hoggish men whose power, both in the home and outside of it, is largely an illusion.—
Amy Rowland,
New York Times,
12 May 2020
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“Piggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piggy. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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