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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

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

Also like many vets, he loves guns, and is excited, post-recovery, to “go hog hunting.”

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

Duffy, who joined CME Group as a runner in the lean hog pit in 1980, will become executive chairman on that date, and Fitzpatrick will join the board, the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

Looking down, we saw the draccus rolling in the fire like a hog in a wallow.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

It was that sort of thing, I guess, that always made Mama so afraid of wild hogs.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

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

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

Self-described haters say entitled cabana crews are hogging public space and disrespecting other beachgoers.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025

All that open space created by Toia’s block hogging has benefited teammates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024

“He’s hogging all the luck. Let’s try again tomorrow.”

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn


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