piglet
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The best way to estimate the full-grown size of a piglet is by its parents, Rosen said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
It was the only tennis match to start with a piglet being handed over to one of the competitors - but this was no ordinary match.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025
The phrase “Balls to the Walz” was everywhere, as were pictures of the Minnesota governor nestling a piglet in his arms with a beaming smile.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2024
A photo of him beaming while holding a piglet checked the state fair campaign stop box, the difference being that he looks genuinely ecstatic to be cuddling it.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2024
They found a piglet caught in a curtain of creepers, throwing itself at the elastic traces in all the madness of extreme terror.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
His daughter, Estela Whitney, was tasked with feeding food scraps to the piglets and refilling their water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Also known as water bears and moss piglets, tardigrades sport blobby physiques, lumbering gaits and perfectly circular mouths stuck in the middle of their otherwise-featureless faces.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024
In a new study, published in Virology, a multidisciplinary team of researchers have studied newborn piglets to better understand the progression of influenza infections.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024
"It's a pig house, so you have breeding sows in that house and piglets," he added.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2024
I suck in breath: a photograph of a papaya tree swaying broad, fan like leaves in the full sun, showing off a bundle of fat orange piglets.
From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai
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