hog
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Does she want to hog Johnny Thunders for herself or replace him as Dominique’s lover?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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
They now have 40 volunteer "hog ambulance drivers" who can collect an animal in need from anywhere in Fife, Edinburgh, the Lothians and as far as the Borders.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
He limps through the aisles and gets a honey bun, an apple, and a pack of hog head cheese.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
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
Palestinian-Chilean singer Elyanna, meanwhile, hogs the spotlight during We Pray, hitting some quite extraordinary high notes.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
We’ll have our own hogs, fish to catch, and oysters to dig.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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
Nobody seems to care that I’ve hogged a terminal.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
Members of Earth, Wind & Fire had been frustrated with White, accusing him of hogging the bulk of the profits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 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
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
That night Ernie was hogging the sink as they brushed their teeth before bed.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
