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[hawg, hog] / hɔg, hɒg /




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A lot of the sports that you practice, whether that be hog hunting, coyote hunting, or just hunting, they’re associated with firearms.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

U.S. cattle ranchers and hog farmers have spent months bracing for the screwworm—which is spread by flies laying eggs in open wounds of warm-blooded animals—to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

So far we’ve only purchased things from around the edges; we can’t get up the nerve to walk in there whole hog and do our shopping.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

No one hogs the limelight at NASA: When I ask Mr. Kshatriya if he laid the operational groundwork for Ms. Glaze, he says: “Me and 1,000 other people.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 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

“Don’t you just hate it when someone hogs all the attention at the family events?”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

It was another Winter Hill member who hogged the limelight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

Love Is All Around is a member of a very small club of hits that hogged the charts in the 1990s to the point many couldn't listen to them any more.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2024

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

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

"With those levers, the big hitting, hogging the baseline, he was already showing real promise."

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 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

All that open space created by Toia’s block hogging has benefited teammates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024

It bothers me a little that Dylan is hogging the praise.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston


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