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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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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
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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
Adjective
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Another one of these gluttonous projects is hardly surprising.—
Lexi Carson,
HollywoodReporter,
30 May 2026
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Yes, the 2025-26 Premier League’s transfer windows featured a lot of gluttonous waste — and, amid the madness, some bargain buys too.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
26 May 2026
Adjective
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The Democratic Party was being greedy.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
3 June 2026
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So perhaps there will be a Season 8, though with two unaired seasons still to come later this year and next, asking for more feels greedy.—
Glenn Whipp,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2026
Adjective
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The raise also underscores the astronomical costs these frontier companies face to keep pace with the insatiable demand for compute power.—
Richard Nieva,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2026
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Shares soared 19% on Tuesday alone, pushing the company’s market value past $1 trillion for the first time ever, thanks to insatiable AI demand for its memory chips.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
27 May 2026
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 11 Jun. 2026.
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