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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
Adjective
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Other Redditors wondered if there was any truth to the restaurant staff's comments, and suggested that some guests may have actually been gluttonous.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
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Check him out in all his gluttonous glory.—
Daniel Wine,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But Septime Webre’s choreography is supposed to have the air of wild and sometimes frenzied social dancing, of Charlestons and Fox Trots and Black Bottoms, of indulging the glorious excesses of the 1920s before the greedier side of the American Dream comes crashing down a few years later.—
David Lyman,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
30 Oct. 2025
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Which is to say, this isn’t the story of a greedy, materialistic man who suffers a crisis of conscience while trying to pry a priceless treasure away from an uneducated hick who doesn’t know any better.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
29 Oct. 2025
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Fred Hicks, assistant vice president and chief information officer at Adelphi University, said the companies are adding the extra charges to help pay for multi-billion-dollar data centers and their insatiable appetite for energy.—
Kevin Williams,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
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In the movie, a masked man with an insatiable thirst for murder stalks babysitters on Halloween night.—
Keith Langston,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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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 5 Nov. 2025.
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