hog
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That’s no mean feat, but it also shows that you live high off the hog.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Geological Survey External link flags thermoelectric power as the biggest water hog.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
She’d hired a local BBQ judge who emptied out a hog, stuffed it with pulled pork and sewed it back together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Andy initially thought he was dealing with a baby hog - but as it came to the surface he realised it was in fact a chunky adult male.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
“This,” Mr. Lyford whispered, “is a rooting. And you, HASS-in, have found a fresh one. Yes, a hog has been here recently. Now, we track it.”
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
“We like to say at World Liberty Financial, ‘Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered,’” said Witkoff, now sporting the Richard Mille watch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
For example, non-native feral hogs are now major predators of loggerhead sea turtle eggs along the Georgia coast, USA, while coyotes in eastern North America are expanding onto coastal barrier islands, altering those ecosystems.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2026
Palestinian-Chilean singer Elyanna, meanwhile, hogs the spotlight during We Pray, hitting some quite extraordinary high notes.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
Benji is caustic, needling and selfish — the kind of guy who hogs the window seat, the shower and everyone’s attention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025
Their tushes weren’t as long as those of the range hogs we had running wild in the woods.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
While the headlines for markets are currently hogged by events in the Middle East, over the longer term AI-induced inflation might prove to be the more critical share-price driver.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 2, 2026
Abroad, successive Iranian presidents have often hogged the limelight.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
Mendis was on 92 heading into the final over, but the strike stayed away from him as Dunith Wellalage hogged the limelight.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
It was another Winter Hill member who hogged the limelight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
“No way. It’s my turn to use the computer. You hogged it all last night.”
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
Identify what—or who, if you share a cloud drive with your family—is hogging your storage, then delete stuff you don’t need.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
He worried that a data center would destroy his peace and quiet, bringing noise and light pollution and hogging the area’s water and electricity.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
Starbucks's in South Korea move echoes sentiment in cafes across the world, including in England where some coffee shops have introduced policies aimed at stopping remote workers from "hogging" tables and limiting turnover.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2025
“It’s kind of like the baby boomers are hogging political positions,” he said.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2024
“Yeah, and there might be enough to go around for once, without this bonehead hogging the butter and syrup.”
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
