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[hawg, hog] / hɔg, hɒg /




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A lot of the sports that you practice, whether that be hog hunting, coyote hunting, or just hunting, they’re associated with firearms.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

I have a friend who met a very wealthy and famous writer, whose novel was turned into a movie and who lived high on the hog.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Does she want to hog Johnny Thunders for herself or replace him as Dominique’s lover?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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

Loma was in hog heaven, being out in public again.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

AI data centers, like crypto miners before them, are energy hogs.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

Mr. Griffin made his money rustling feral hogs to sell at market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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

Companies are snapping up Vernon properties and upgrading them, adding advanced cooling systems to old office buildings and filling a shuttered slaughterhouse that once housed hogs, with advanced chips.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025

I jumped, but it was just Mrs. Peevey talking to her rambunctious hogs.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

Maryland is not exactly known for its wines—Virginia has hogged the spotlight in the region for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

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

At my tenth Luke hogged my candles and messed up my cake.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

"With those levers, the big hitting, hogging the baseline, he was already showing real promise."

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

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

“It’s kind of like the baby boomers are hogging political positions,” he said.

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2024

Even though our team had exchanged email addresses during camp, Dad was hogging the laptop for his job search.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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