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
The milieu here is rarified and sophisticated, all gallery openings and gourmet restaurants that serve organic pork from pigs who only eat a specific type of acorns.
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Katie Rife, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2025
Elementary schools in Murewa and Mutare and Africa University in Mutare all manage their own farms, primarily raising chickens and pigs, to feed students daily.
—Liam Adams, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Nov. 2025
Both companies have completed initial tests showing that their approaches work, at least in mice, and both have started tests in larger animals — pigs and monkeys — to see whether their gene therapies can work in larger animals.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
Corn was known for feeding farm animals, like chickens and pigs.
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
Tiny tech, vast reach In animal experiments conducted at a research facility in Paris, the team successfully guided MagFlow through the intricate arteries of pigs’ heads, necks, and spines, safely delivering contrast and embolizing agents to highly curved and narrow vessels.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
Visit ostriches, emus, llamas, pigs, and more.
—Maggie Downs, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2025
Investor Carl Icahn, for instance, attempted to install board members at McDonald’s to change how its suppliers treated pregnant pigs—a cause raised by his daughter, an animal rights advocate.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
Fish with jig and pigs or plastic worms on a drop=shot rig or shaky head jig.
—Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
Katie Rife, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2025
Elementary schools in Murewa and Mutare and Africa University in Mutare all manage their own farms, primarily raising chickens and pigs, to feed students daily.
—Liam Adams, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Nov. 2025
Both companies have completed initial tests showing that their approaches work, at least in mice, and both have started tests in larger animals — pigs and monkeys — to see whether their gene therapies can work in larger animals.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
Corn was known for feeding farm animals, like chickens and pigs.
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
Tiny tech, vast reach In animal experiments conducted at a research facility in Paris, the team successfully guided MagFlow through the intricate arteries of pigs’ heads, necks, and spines, safely delivering contrast and embolizing agents to highly curved and narrow vessels.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
Visit ostriches, emus, llamas, pigs, and more.
—Maggie Downs, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2025
Investor Carl Icahn, for instance, attempted to install board members at McDonald’s to change how its suppliers treated pregnant pigs—a cause raised by his daughter, an animal rights advocate.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
Fish with jig and pigs or plastic worms on a drop=shot rig or shaky head jig.
—Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pigs
hogs
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Penny has reported on everything from national civil rights issues to hog farming in Illinois, Georgia, Texas and now Arkansas.—
Penny Weaver,
Arkansas Online,
30 Oct. 2025
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He was baffled as if there does not appear to be any point of access for an animal the size of a ground hog.—
Chris McKeown,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Pigs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pigs. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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