hog
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Also like many vets, he loves guns, and is excited, post-recovery, to “go hog hunting.”
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
Funds run by those firms get a debt security backed by the hog, and Harley gets to make another loan to the next customer quickly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
The gate became a landmark that endured into the twenty-first century, long after the last hog crossed to eternity over the great wooden ramp called the Bridge of Sighs.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
No one hogs the limelight at NASA: When I ask Mr. Kshatriya if he laid the operational groundwork for Ms. Glaze, he says: “Me and 1,000 other people.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 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
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
There are measures that can make the hogs a bit less greedy.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2024
The hogs, some still alive, were dipped next in a vat of boiling water, then scraped clean of bristle—the bristle saved in bins below the scraping tables.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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
At my tenth Luke hogged my candles and messed up my cake.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
She’s not a diva belting out choruses and taking up space—instead, she sometimes seems like a master of ceremonies, someone hosting the party rather than hogging the spotlight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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
Self-described haters say entitled cabana crews are hogging public space and disrespecting other beachgoers.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025
The other players can’t get into any rhythm because it’s either LeBron or AD hogging the ball.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 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
