piggyback
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Now the brand is hoping to piggyback on the global popularity of F1 to reach a younger audience, even if it’s unlikely to appear near the front of the pack anytime soon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 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
Ohtani will next start on the mound Saturday against the Houston Astros — a 4:05 p.m. start — and southpaw Justin Wrobleski will again piggyback off the two-way star’s opening effort.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2025
And it's easy to piggyback on this kind of messaging and then manipulate that.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2025
Lianne had hopped up onto Freddie's hips so he could give her a piggyback ride to the dorm.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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’ve given thirteen piggybacks by the time Marie rescues me from the youngest of the boys.
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
Yeah, I just piggybacked off of Mary Oliver, so that was a total cheat, but I was eating dinner listening to this podcast and sobbing.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 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
While it's not clear what form this collaboration may take, it's a rare example of a global fashion giant acknowledging that it failed to credit local artisans and the craft it was piggybacking on.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025
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
“So, you’re piggybacking on MIT, and I’m piggybacking on you,” Tea concludes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 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
