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hog

[hawg, hog] / hɔg, hɒg /




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I have a friend who met a very wealthy and famous writer, whose novel was turned into a movie and who lived high on the hog.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Also like many vets, he loves guns, and is excited, post-recovery, to “go hog hunting.”

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

Does she want to hog Johnny Thunders for herself or replace him as Dominique’s lover?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Duffy, who joined CME Group as a runner in the lean hog pit in 1980, will become executive chairman on that date, and Fitzpatrick will join the board, the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

Being a city slicker, he’d no doubt turn tail and beat it back to Terre Haute when we started bleeding out the first hog.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

AI data centers, like crypto miners before them, are energy hogs.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

The company said the plant will source about all of its hogs from nearby farmers in South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 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

Benji is caustic, needling and selfish — the kind of guy who hogs the window seat, the shower and everyone’s attention.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025

All we needed was just to move the hogs along to where we wanted them, and Old Yeller already knew how to do this.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

Maryland is not exactly known for its wines—Virginia has hogged the spotlight in the region for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

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

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

While Norwegian Haaland's remarkable scoring feats in this campaign - 27 now for club and country - have hogged the headlines, Foden is a key part of that "talent up front".

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025

Some of the lines are silly—about how he hogged the pepperoni pizza at our birthday party, put an obviously recyclable cup in the trash, and often leaves his shoelaces untied.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Members of Earth, Wind & Fire had been frustrated with White, accusing him of hogging the bulk of the profits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 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

Starbucks's in South Korea move echoes sentiment in cafes across the world, including in England where some coffee shops have introduced policies aimed at stopping remote workers from "hogging" tables and limiting turnover.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2025

James won the “MVP” at the Olympics by hogging the ball and making it about him, as usual.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2024

“He’s hogging all the luck. Let’s try again tomorrow.”

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn




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