piggyback
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The camera quickly cut to Jordana riding piggyback on a band member.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Their personalities shone during Butter, when Jungkook jumped onto Jin's shoulders and got a piggyback around the stage.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Big increases in central-bank buying led others to piggyback on the price gains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026
The most common type of down-payment assistance, according to Down Payment Resource, is a second mortgage, or piggyback loan, which has grown in popularity as affordability has challenged home buyers.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 31, 2026
Mom released me so I could take Laleh piggyback, and we walked through the sliding glass doors into the cool Tehran night.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
The bacteria piggybacks on the flour, so one advantage of making a sourdough starter from organically grown wheat or other grains is that it will have a more diverse array of bacterial species.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
For Netflix, he piggybacks on his sister's account.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2022
GoFundMe just piggybacks on their efforts, hoping to get another cut out of the kindness of people’s hearts—or out of people not noticing a 15 percent tip is GoFundMe’s default option.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2020
It piggybacks on the existing motor-fuel rules, which bar “unconscionably high” prices.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 30, 2020
I give Leigh’s and Katherine’s kids a hundred airplane rides and piggybacks, or at least until I can’t stand up anymore.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
On Feb. 1, she piggybacked off the Flynn campaign launch video to declare she’d “left Oxford to run Carrick’s campaign” and was “honored to work for him!”
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2023
One of the rescued hikers moaned in pain and said "God is great" as she piggybacked on a rescuer, AFP news agency reported.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2023
“We just kind of piggybacked off them — waited for them to get their photos done,” McCann said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
Newly signed bulk reliever Tyler Anderson then piggybacked for four more innings, also surrendering only one run.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2022
“The boat dumped a rotten carcass or a spoiled haul, right? The flies piggybacked on the dead fish until they picked up Stef’s scent.”
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
The first Indian quick-commerce apps launched during the Covid-19 pandemic, piggybacking off a rewiring of urban shopping habits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
The breakthrough is to prove it can be done by piggybacking on the heat generated by another heavy industry – steel recycling.
From BBC ● May 22, 2024
Small businesses of all kinds are piggybacking on the tour’s momentum.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2023
The Canadian government has kept tabs on the virus in its deer and other wildlife populations by piggybacking its surveillance on an existing program to detect chronic wasting disease and rabies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
The ice pack, with Ocean Camp piggybacking along, made a steady three miles north every day.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
