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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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Daisy May Cooper’s gluttonous commitment alone puts this one in the Taskmaster Hall of Fame.—
Matthew Jackson,
Vulture,
11 Sep. 2025
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With today’s gluttonous demand for energy, nuclear is a realistic concept.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
24 July 2025
Adjective
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Suddenly, Mickey is offering him a chance to play the main stage, which sets Sam’s greedier instincts into overdrive.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
13 Sep. 2025
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But his greedy schemes and her desire to keep her dog immortal led to the downfall of her once-thriving business and turned her into a woman on the run.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The bottom line is digital twins are fundamental for delivering products in the most efficient and timely manner and this is of the utmost importance at a time when there’s insatiable demand for AI compute resources, with increasingly shorter time-to-service demands.—
Marco Chiappetta,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Rising sea levels from the warming climate are souring coastal freshwater sources while data centers that power AI and cloud computing are consuming water at an insatiable rate.—
Rodrique Ngowi,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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 18 Sep. 2025.
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