hoard
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He frequently plucks from his tremendous word hoard gems that will send you to the dictionary: bonxie, fankle, rupestral, stramash, zawn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Although archaeologists believe the original shipment may have contained even more pieces, the surviving collection of 43 helmets already represents the largest known hoard of medieval helmets ever found in the western Mediterranean.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026
He had been released on licence for the theft but had been due to be sentenced for a separate charge of not paying his share of the Herefordshire hoard value.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
The hoard was valued at $64.14 billion as of May 1.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
He took the purse, poured the hoard into his palm, and chuckled over it as if its scantiness amused him.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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Strategy, the software company that amassed one of the largest publicly disclosed bitcoin hoards, is down by more than 80% from its 52-week highs,
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
When you are a film critic who already hoards DVDs, getting infected with the VHS bug doesn’t take much of a leap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
It also started buying up hoards of mortgage-backed securities to drive down borrowing costs for American households.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 17, 2026
But not even Greenland’s valuable geographical position and hoards of critical minerals could compensate for damaging the trans-Atlantic alliance that remains fundamental to U.S. security.
From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026
He hoards fast-food ketchup packets and steals the small containers of jam from restaurant tables.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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She dotes on her husband, who suffers from dementia and comes to terms with all the paraphernalia and recordings from her career that she hoarded for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Rodriguez embraced the culture as he sipped a complimentary can of Coca-Cola -- one of around a dozen he had hoarded to share with his family also attending the game.
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
It is plausible that some of the details he hoarded about his associates could have been used to pressure or influence them, though there is no evidence that this occurred in Gates's case.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
As with gold, silver has long been hoarded by investors worried about inflation, government debt, and the overall safety of the modern financial system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
He didn't care to spend money; like the dragons of legend, he hoarded it.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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While you don’t have any control over point devaluation, you can protect yourself by spending your points and not hoarding them.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
That is to keep teams from hoarding revenue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Yes, as these companies’ statements uniformly note, those chips are being taken up by the A.I. data center rush, with Google and OpenAI leading the way in hoarding these processors.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
But when they walked past on Tuesday, the once colourful store was covered in hoarding after all shops closed.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
The boy's hand hovered over a button, and his lips bore a cheeky Mona Lisa smile, as if he were hoarding all the secrets of the universe and would never share.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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