- present participle of hoard.
hoarding
Example Sentences
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He argues speculation and hoarding, rather than a genuine shortage, are driving prices higher.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Henderson fell over an advertising hoarding and broke his arm after the win over Mexico.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
While you don’t have any control over point devaluation, you can protect yourself by spending your points and not hoarding them.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Yes, as these companies’ statements uniformly note, those chips are being taken up by the A.I. data center rush, with Google and OpenAI leading the way in hoarding these processors.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
Even Dinorah added some guava paste she’d been hoarding.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
