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swine

[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

The other actor whose presence deeply impacted the production, Nolan reports, is Samantha Morton, mesmerizing as Circe, the goddess who changes Odysseus’ men into swine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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

A herd of pigs at a swine facility once charged at him, forcing him to jump out of the way while the farmhands chuckled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

He expressed himself in the dietary laws, which favored native African foods—the yam, the cassava—and prohibited the consumption of swine.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Wherefore no body tooke heede thereto, vntil such time as the Moores perceiuing that many followed them in superstition, and that the Loutea fauoured them, they began to forbid wholy the eating of swines flesh.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Richard Hakluyt

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

But 'e says, "None of yer jabber, ye swines; 'elp me inter my bunk, and two of yer bring me a 'ot linseed poultice for my chest."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 28, 1917 by Various


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