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hog

[hawg, hog] / hɔg, hɒg /




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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

It comes as a cafe in Aberystwyth last month revealed it had struggled with customers staying for long periods of time and had to resort to asking customers not to "hog" tables.

From BBC May 15, 2026

They’d spend their days at leisure in the hog wallow and nest in dry leaves by night.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

The company slaughters nearly 30 million hogs a year and is a major supplier of ham, bacon and other pork products to grocers.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 16, 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

All the city’s wealth, however, had failed to shake the widespread perception that Chicago was a secondary city that preferred butchered hogs to Beethoven.

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

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

While Norwegian Haaland's remarkable scoring feats in this campaign - 27 now for club and country - have hogged the headlines, Foden is a key part of that "talent up front".

From BBC Nov. 5, 2025

He wanted to wake up to hear Papi cursing him out and Mami defending him and Bri and Julie fighting over who hogged the bathroom worse.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer

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

Another gripe linked to the amount of space people have on planes is double armrest hogging.

From BBC Sep. 28, 2024

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

In the Before, I would have complained about getting stuck in the middle seat twice in a row, especially with Andre’s legs hogging all my space.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller




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