piggyback
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By using open-weight models, developers can piggyback off of existing efforts to develop AI without having to do as much hardware-intensive training work.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
By being attached to Crif Dogs, PDT could piggyback on the restaurant’s liquor license.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
Big increases in central-bank buying led others to piggyback on the price gains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026
With the messaging and awareness, I feel in a unique position where I can piggyback off the work they have all done and impact going forward in that MND space.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
The one who carried her piggyback through the streets of Yazd.
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
When someone gets a reward, “it piggybacks on that same dopamine circuit.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 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
I’ve given thirteen piggybacks by the time Marie rescues me from the youngest of the boys.
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
Per the Philadelphia Inquirer, Interim Police Commissioner John Stanford described the robbers and vandals as “opportunists” who piggybacked on the grief regarding the Irizarry case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023
“We just kind of piggybacked off them — waited for them to get their photos done,” McCann said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
“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
Instead, the schools might consider piggybacking off the lawsuit that just concluded in Washington state with a resounding victory, at both the superior court and supreme court levels, for the Cougars and Beavers.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
“So, you’re piggybacking on MIT, and I’m piggybacking on you,” Tea concludes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 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
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