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hoard

[hawrd, hohrd] / hɔrd, hoʊrd /




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He actually uses his reservations, but you can imagine people using agents to hoard tables, or the human user not realizing the agent booked a table and the restaurant being stuck with a no-show.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

“And if you don’t do that, the chances are much greater that you’re just going to hoard it.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Plenty of business scions have inherited a fortune and used it to make a slightly bigger hoard.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

The rightful owner has five years to claim the hoard under Belgian law - though the local prosecutor, who has launched an investigation, said it was not yet known who this might be.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

It was a long time since it had needed to leave the glittering hoard it gloated over.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye

Since she’s afraid to venture outside, she hoards these memories to live vicariously.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

A small group of men hoards wealth and resources, while the peasant class is heavily taxed, laws brutally enforced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Digital advertising hoards currently plastered with adverts for the "Big Rail Fare Freeze" are part of the same strategy.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026

It also started buying up hoards of mortgage-backed securities to drive down borrowing costs for American households.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 17, 2026

There are hoards of gentlemen dressed in velvet and silk, sailors in their wide-legged slops, and one very dirty boy selling eels.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

So why are people so captivated by videos of hoarded homes, crime scene cleans and other extreme clear-outs?

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

She dotes on her husband, who suffers from dementia and comes to terms with all the paraphernalia and recordings from her career that she hoarded for decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

He once hoarded approximately 64,000 of them—the equivalent of spending about $6,400 on burrito bowls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

Over years of high inflation and currency controls, Argentines traded their battered pesos for dollars, which they often hoarded at home, in cash.

From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026

A geyser of sparks erupts deep within a house—an electrical transformer or hoarded fuel or maybe a delayed-action bomb—and it looks to him as if lightning lashes the town from within.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Retailers with hesitations cite concerns over controlling consumer data, the customer experience, fraudulent purchases and inventory hoarding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

It suggests Metals X is hoarding cash for future production growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Gordon says the main reason she posts online is to raise awareness, particularly about hoarding disorder and mental health.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

While you don’t have any control over point devaluation, you can protect yourself by spending your points and not hoarding them.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

Slopper sat in the corner hoarding his own pile of hay until Tree explained to him that we could jump off the loft if we had something below to break our fall.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline




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