piggy

Definition of piggynext

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for piggy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for piggy
Adjective
  • The Pork Belly A breakfast diner that added piggish flair to Kuna’s dining scene is no more.
    Michael Deeds January 1, Idaho Statesman, 1 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • There’s a gluttonous amount of food content out there waiting to be devoured, but none of it is like Emeril Live.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2026
  • As in all things, Falstaff is led by his belly, a gargantuan metaphor for his gluttonous nature.
    Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
Adjective
  • Skubal, who missed more than a month after eventually having surgery to remove a loose body from his elbow, mostly disagreed with public reaction painting him as greedy or selfish in not disclosing the strange feeling that had lingered in his arm.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 24 July 2026
  • In Nolan’s telling, his deceit and plundering portend the collapse of the Bronze Age—a foreboding warning about greedy, fading empires that feels a little too relevant.
    Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 16 July 2026
Adjective
  • Google signed a gigantic infrastructure deal to supply Anthropic with cutting-edge chips as the industry explores new financing paradigms to meet the AI industry's insatiable appetite for compute power.
    Emily Forlini, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Asked his frustration level over the Dodgers’ insatiable appetite to obtain every star in baseball, White Sox general manager Chris Getz was obviously reading from a script written by Aaron Sorkin.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • 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 6 Aug. 2026.

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