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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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Check him out in all his gluttonous glory.—
Daniel Wine,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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And, of course, the usual gluttonous serving sizes.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Polaha plays Dick Hall, the president of Meridian Mortgage who is taken hostage by Tony Kiritsis (Ribisi), who publicly accuses him on being a greedy and cutthroat monster.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
24 Sep. 2025
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Left-wing antisemitism, which cast Jews as greedy capitalists, existed as well, especially in France, but Jew-baiting remained primarily a right-wing pursuit, the work of illiberal nativists who saw a tiny minority as polluting the purity of their racial or religious communities.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Owner of a stationary shop that sold cigarette papers in the town of Trossingen, Fritz Kiehn had long recognized his fellow citizens’ insatiable demand for rolling papers.—
Robert M. Ehrenreich,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Sep. 2025
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The film follows Farrell as Lord Doyle, a British aristocrat with an insatiable appetite for gambling.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
24 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 9 Oct. 2025.
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