hog
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That’s no mean feat, but it also shows that you live high off the hog.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Geological Survey External link flags thermoelectric power as the biggest water hog.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
It comes as a cafe in Aberystwyth last month revealed it had struggled with customers staying for long periods of time and had to resort to asking customers not to "hog" tables.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Her look evolves from a worn-out cog to a biker-like granny who’d seem natural riding on the back of Dennis Hopper’s hog.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
So I had left off hog hunting and started getting ready to gather corn when Bud Searcy paid us another visit.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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“We like to say at World Liberty Financial, ‘Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered,’” said Witkoff, now sporting the Richard Mille watch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
For example, non-native feral hogs are now major predators of loggerhead sea turtle eggs along the Georgia coast, USA, while coyotes in eastern North America are expanding onto coastal barrier islands, altering those ecosystems.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2026
Companies are snapping up Vernon properties and upgrading them, adding advanced cooling systems to old office buildings and filling a shuttered slaughterhouse that once housed hogs, with advanced chips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025
There are measures that can make the hogs a bit less greedy.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2024
In the fall, some years, there was a lot of pigs and hogs for butchering.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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While the headlines for markets are currently hogged by events in the Middle East, over the longer term AI-induced inflation might prove to be the more critical share-price driver.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 2, 2026
Abroad, successive Iranian presidents have often hogged the limelight.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
Mendis was on 92 heading into the final over, but the strike stayed away from him as Dunith Wellalage hogged the limelight.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
It was another Winter Hill member who hogged the limelight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Theo, with whom I have never had a conversation about matters more pressing than which of our fellow boarders hogged all the hot water.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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"With those levers, the big hitting, hogging the baseline, he was already showing real promise."
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Identify what—or who, if you share a cloud drive with your family—is hogging your storage, then delete stuff you don’t need.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
He worried that a data center would destroy his peace and quiet, bringing noise and light pollution and hogging the area’s water and electricity.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
“It’s kind of like the baby boomers are hogging political positions,” he said.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2024
That night Ernie was hogging the sink as they brushed their teeth before bed.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
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