hog
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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
In the Carolinas, Asheville, N.C., with its tie-dye stores and breweries, tends to hog the attention of travelers looking to explore the region.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Geological Survey External link flags thermoelectric power as the biggest water hog.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
“I don’t want to hog you,” Aimee says.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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AI data centers, like crypto miners before them, are energy hogs.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
It’s a technical distinction that separates them from 1,000-pound commercial hogs but offers little comfort to a suburban homeowner expecting a permanent lap pet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 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
I laugh, remembering the teeming streets of London, with carriages and horses and people and hogs all vying for space on the cobblestones.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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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
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
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
Dad hogged the kite spool, so I took another warm jam doughnut.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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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
Dealing with "seat hogging" and related issues is a tricky balance, and the independent cafes grappling with a similar thing have deployed a range of approaches.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025
I sometimes would manage to come up with excuses to phone her, and we would have long conversations until one of us would be told by a sibling to stop hogging the line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024
“Yeah, and there might be enough to go around for once, without this bonehead hogging the butter and syrup.”
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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