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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.
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Greg Petro,
Forbes,
2 June 2022
Their houses are piggy banks, their retirement accounts are up and their bosses are eager to please.
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New York Times,
10 May 2022
Prior to the current coloring book program, First Federal Lakewood gave away piggy banks.
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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
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The Pork Belly A breakfast diner that added piggish flair to Kuna’s dining scene is no more.
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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.
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The memory is where the data gets placed and served up to the processor, like a dinner platter holding a gluttonous giant’s feast.
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Here, a gluttonous breakfast feast is served, followed by modern Thai fare for lunch and dinner.
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The Sudanese conflict has conscripted the neighboring countries who are selfishly courting either faction for resources or political standing, as well as greedy, exploitative foreign powers who repeatedly leverage religious and cultural tensions in the region, into the fight for profit.
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Next to him were Brad Lander, Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez, all left-leaning candidates running on a platform that includes abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and taking on bad landlords and greedy corporations.
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Here developed the center of the Atlantic economy due to the insatiable appetite for sugar that had grown across Europe by the late 1700s.
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And as America celebrates its 250th anniversary, the border's journey to its current location is the story of the birth of a nation that swallowed up Native American tribes, Spanish descendants and Mexican citizens in its insatiable hunger to grow.
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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.
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“Piggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piggy. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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