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hog

[hawg, hog] / hɔg, hɒg /




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That’s no mean feat, but it also shows that you live high off the hog.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

China is the world’s largest soybean importer, relying heavily on imports to feed its massive hog and poultry industries.

From Barron's May 12, 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

Her look evolves from a worn-out cog to a biker-like granny who’d seem natural riding on the back of Dennis Hopper’s hog.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 3, 2026

The sled went right under the hog and picked him up.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

“We like to say at World Liberty Financial, ‘Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered,’” said Witkoff, now sporting the Richard Mille watch.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 8, 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

There are measures that can make the hogs a bit less greedy.

From BBC Jun. 3, 2024

Mayor Peevey glanced toward the farmyard where Mrs. Peevey, the First Lady of Sassafras Springs, was carrying slops to the hogs.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

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

Dad hogged the kite spool, so I took another warm jam doughnut.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

James won the “MVP” at the Olympics by hogging the ball and making it about him, as usual.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 31, 2024

Despite my efforts at hogging the window, I feel myself getting shoved aside as Jude squeezes her head and then her shoulders out beside mine until we’re a two-headed hydra.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson




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