piggyback
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By using open-weight models, developers can piggyback off of existing efforts to develop AI without having to do as much hardware-intensive training work.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
Their personalities shone during Butter, when Jungkook jumped onto Jin's shoulders and got a piggyback around the stage.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
These signals piggyback on the brawny Bang & Olufsen audio system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
The most common type of down-payment assistance, according to Down Payment Resource, is a second mortgage, or piggyback loan, which has grown in popularity as affordability has challenged home buyers.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 31, 2026
I carried Sam piggyback to the blanket while Lynn directed me.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
The bacteria piggybacks on the flour, so one advantage of making a sourdough starter from organically grown wheat or other grains is that it will have a more diverse array of bacterial species.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
For Netflix, he piggybacks on his sister's account.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2022
GoFundMe just piggybacks on their efforts, hoping to get another cut out of the kindness of people’s hearts—or out of people not noticing a 15 percent tip is GoFundMe’s default option.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2020
It piggybacks on the existing motor-fuel rules, which bar “unconscionably high” prices.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 30, 2020
I give Leigh’s and Katherine’s kids a hundred airplane rides and piggybacks, or at least until I can’t stand up anymore.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
On Feb. 1, she piggybacked off the Flynn campaign launch video to declare she’d “left Oxford to run Carrick’s campaign” and was “honored to work for him!”
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2023
One of the rescued hikers moaned in pain and said "God is great" as she piggybacked on a rescuer, AFP news agency reported.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2023
“We just kind of piggybacked off them — waited for them to get their photos done,” McCann said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
Newly signed bulk reliever Tyler Anderson then piggybacked for four more innings, also surrendering only one run.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2022
“The boat dumped a rotten carcass or a spoiled haul, right? The flies piggybacked on the dead fish until they picked up Stef’s scent.”
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
The first Indian quick-commerce apps launched during the Covid-19 pandemic, piggybacking off a rewiring of urban shopping habits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
Franklin Graham, who has built his entire career piggybacking on the fame of his famous father, the late evangelist Billy Graham, was rewarded with a plum spot on Sunday’s roster.
From Salon ● May 15, 2026
The breakthrough is to prove it can be done by piggybacking on the heat generated by another heavy industry – steel recycling.
From BBC ● May 22, 2024
Instead, the schools might consider piggybacking off the lawsuit that just concluded in Washington state with a resounding victory, at both the superior court and supreme court levels, for the Cougars and Beavers.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
The ice pack, with Ocean Camp piggybacking along, made a steady three miles north every day.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
