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[swahyn] / swaɪn /




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Babirusas in the wild are found on just four Indonesian islands and the zoo said they were being wiped out due to African swine fever reaching the islands five years ago.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

No revolutionary, Wood writes, “defended with more vehemence common ordinary people against the aristocracy—‘against being ridden like horses, fleeced like sheep, worked like cattle, and fed and cloathed like swine and hounds.’

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

There have been nine such declarations, including the Ebola outbreak in 2013, the COVID-19 pandemic and the swine flu pandemic in 2009.

From MarketWatch May 17, 2026

In the spring of 2009, a shift happened with an H1N1 strain, also known as swine flu.

From Salon Jan. 8, 2026

Touch at the first beach, go ashore, and send your ship and crew around to port by sea, while you go inland to the forester, your old friend, loyal keeper of the swine.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Human respiratory physiology is more like that of swines than felines.

From Salon Feb. 12, 2025

Another manager on the brink is Quique Sànchez Flores, reportedly set to be sacked by the ungrateful swines at Watford, with a first top-ten finish in 30 years still on the table.

From The Guardian Apr. 30, 2016

My swines are ill," he informed her, greatly agitated, his fragile English going altogether to pieces in his perturbation; "my inspector writes they perpetually die.

From The Benefactress by Elizabeth

The myth of Circe turning the companions of Ulysses into swines shows the religious belief, in ancient Greece, in magical transformation of human beings into animals.

From Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll

This person professes himself to be of the Mahometan faith, and will not permit swines flesh to be eaten in his dominions.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr




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