as in hogs
one who eats greedily or too much
all-you-can-eat buffets seem to encourage some people to become shameless pigs
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Recent Examples of pigs
Children enjoy visiting the farm's resident animals, which include sheep, goats, alpacas, pigs, and hens.
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Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2026
Some are violent in nature, showing guns pointing at the oppressive establishment, usually portrayed as pigs.
—John Ramos, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
All the chickens, turkeys, goats, and pigs carry a certain odor, their makeshift habitat a distinct unsightliness, which disagree with Bruce and his husband Darrell’s more regal tastes.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2026
Erick Rocha leads the pastry program, crafting conchas filled with yuzu or corn husk curds, hazelnut-praline-chocolate chip cookies, cajeta brioche, and marranitos, Mexican gingerbread cookies charmingly shaped like pigs, served with dark, single-origin Oaxacan coffee.
—Andrea Strong, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Feb. 2026
Until this year Chablé’s programming largely focused on adults but anew farm space presents kid-friendly introductions to farming and gardening and includes a petting zoo with especially social pigs, goats, rabbits, and miniature horses and burros.
—John Newton, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Feb. 2026
The Nipah virus, though, has a long incubation rate, which allows the people who have been infected to be isolated and for the infected animals (usually pigs) who gave it to the humans to be culled.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 31 Jan. 2026
Most commonly, it has been transmitted through direct contact with infected pigs or bats, the CDC says.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026
Traditionally, truffle-searchers used pigs instead of dogs.
—Aviva Bechky, Houston Chronicle, 30 Jan. 2026
Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2026
Some are violent in nature, showing guns pointing at the oppressive establishment, usually portrayed as pigs.
—John Ramos, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
All the chickens, turkeys, goats, and pigs carry a certain odor, their makeshift habitat a distinct unsightliness, which disagree with Bruce and his husband Darrell’s more regal tastes.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2026
Erick Rocha leads the pastry program, crafting conchas filled with yuzu or corn husk curds, hazelnut-praline-chocolate chip cookies, cajeta brioche, and marranitos, Mexican gingerbread cookies charmingly shaped like pigs, served with dark, single-origin Oaxacan coffee.
—Andrea Strong, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Feb. 2026
Until this year Chablé’s programming largely focused on adults but anew farm space presents kid-friendly introductions to farming and gardening and includes a petting zoo with especially social pigs, goats, rabbits, and miniature horses and burros.
—John Newton, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Feb. 2026
The Nipah virus, though, has a long incubation rate, which allows the people who have been infected to be isolated and for the infected animals (usually pigs) who gave it to the humans to be culled.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 31 Jan. 2026
Most commonly, it has been transmitted through direct contact with infected pigs or bats, the CDC says.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026
Traditionally, truffle-searchers used pigs instead of dogs.
—Aviva Bechky, Houston Chronicle, 30 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pigs
hogs
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State Highway 130 has a stretch with a speed limit of eighty-five miles an hour, the highest in the country; the night the road opened, three cars crashed into feral hogs.—
Tad Friend,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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The new facility aims to increase slaughter numbers to 22,000 hogs a day while maintaining a comparable workforce of 3,200 employees.—
Angela George,
Sioux Falls Argus Leader,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Pigs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pigs. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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