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hoard

[hawrd, hohrd] / hɔrd, hoʊrd /




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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

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

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

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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