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sty

[stahy] / staɪ /
NOUN
den
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The place was a sty to begin with and only becomes more squalid after Mick, Keith and Brian move in.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Three piglets on the loose from an abandoned sty were foraging in the city street.

From Reuters • Sep. 16, 2022

“Water is sour, the air is lonely here / And all the noises of this natural shire / From stable or from sty are not enough,” Mr. Howard wrote in one poem.

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2022

Irons glides smoothly over a barrage of judgments in “Marina,” “Death” being embodied in “Those who sit in the sty of contentment” and in “Those who suffer the ecstasy of the animals.”

From New York Times • May 17, 2018

“Down co the sty to slop the hogs,” Grandma called back.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck




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