as in hogs
one who eats greedily or too much
all-you-can-eat buffets seem to encourage some people to become shameless pigs
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Recent Examples of pigs
The same scalpel or bone saw that cut a human also cleft sheep, horses, pigs and other animals in distress.
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Katherine Ott,
The Conversation,
2 July 2026
Alpha-gal syndrome is caused by ticks, usually the lone star tick, that have previously fed on mammals like cows, deer, goats and pigs.
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Erika Edwards,
NBC news,
2 July 2026
The pigs that would soon enough become lunch lazed in the compost-pile mud in front of a five-star-hotel-worthy view of the Cretan Sea.
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Shannon McMahon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 July 2026
The GalSafe pigs, as they’re called, are raised in an unmarked facility in rural Virginia, surrounded by razor wire and surveillance cameras.
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Burkhard Bilger,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
Westbound Interstate 80 in the Sierra Nevada was blocked after a big rig hauling pigs overturned late Monday night in Placer County.
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Cecilio Padilla,
CBS News,
23 June 2026
Placer County Animal Services also recovered several pigs that escaped from the wreckage.
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Sacbee.com,
23 June 2026
The elder Qin, one of China’s richest men with a fortune worth $15 billion on the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires List, started out in business with 22 pigs in 1992, and went on to become one of the world’s wealthiest entrepreneurs.
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Russell Flannery,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Katherine Ott,
The Conversation,
2 July 2026
Alpha-gal syndrome is caused by ticks, usually the lone star tick, that have previously fed on mammals like cows, deer, goats and pigs.
—
Erika Edwards,
NBC news,
2 July 2026
The pigs that would soon enough become lunch lazed in the compost-pile mud in front of a five-star-hotel-worthy view of the Cretan Sea.
—
Shannon McMahon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 July 2026
The GalSafe pigs, as they’re called, are raised in an unmarked facility in rural Virginia, surrounded by razor wire and surveillance cameras.
—
Burkhard Bilger,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
Westbound Interstate 80 in the Sierra Nevada was blocked after a big rig hauling pigs overturned late Monday night in Placer County.
—
Cecilio Padilla,
CBS News,
23 June 2026
Placer County Animal Services also recovered several pigs that escaped from the wreckage.
—
Sacbee.com,
23 June 2026
The elder Qin, one of China’s richest men with a fortune worth $15 billion on the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires List, started out in business with 22 pigs in 1992, and went on to become one of the world’s wealthiest entrepreneurs.
—
Russell Flannery,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pigs
hogs
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At the same time, industrial production of larger, leaner hogs expanded, and pork shoulders became more practical to cook.
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Qin Muyuan, the 31-year-old son of Chinese billionaire Qin Yinglin, today joined the board of the family flagship Muyuan Foods Group, the world’s corporate leader in hog sales by volume.
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“Pigs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pigs. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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