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hog

[hawg, hog] / hɔg, hɒg /




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Fishmeal helped fuel the post-World War II expansion of industrial chicken and hog farming, particularly in Europe and the United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

Geological Survey External link flags thermoelectric power as the biggest water hog.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

Well, to lose the only meat we had left from last winter’s hog butchering was bad enough.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

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

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

Grumbling to myself about how scary hogs were, I walked on a little way, stopped, and started calling again.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

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

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

Love Is All Around is a member of a very small club of hits that hogged the charts in the 1990s to the point many couldn't listen to them any more.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2024

The Herman W. Block Memorial Library’s air' conditioning unit didn’t work very good, and there was only one fan; and from the minute me and Winn'Dixie got in the library, he hogged it all.

From "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo

But in some local government and urban planning circles, the windowless establishments are seen as hogging land and creating dead zones where there ought be street life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 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

I sometimes would manage to come up with excuses to phone her, and we would have long conversations until one of us would be told by a sibling to stop hogging the line.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 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


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