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Recent Examples of pigskin
In a pigskin peninsula that once boasted some of the most dominant college football programs in the nation and the NFL’s all-time winningest coach, Tampa Bay has become the new standard-bearer.
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Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
New York has not made the postseason since the 2010 season when Rex Ryan was the head coach, Darrelle Revis was patrolling the secondary and Mark Sanchez was slinging the pigskin around the field.
—Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2024
Is this a lot to ask of a quarterback that merely tosses a pigskin 20 times a year?
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 5 Nov. 2024
After some jostling, a Miami defensive back ran away with the pigskin, and celebrations began.
—Ryan Morik, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2024
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Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
New York has not made the postseason since the 2010 season when Rex Ryan was the head coach, Darrelle Revis was patrolling the secondary and Mark Sanchez was slinging the pigskin around the field.
—Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2024
Is this a lot to ask of a quarterback that merely tosses a pigskin 20 times a year?
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 5 Nov. 2024
After some jostling, a Miami defensive back ran away with the pigskin, and celebrations began.
—Ryan Morik, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pigskin
Noun
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Just a maze of wooden boardwalks connecting a smattering of cozy tents lit by lanterns and decorated with sheepskin rugs, leather steamer trunks, and plaid throw blankets.—
Leslie Jamison,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Jan. 2025
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All three styles are unlined and fabricated from supple calf leather, suede, or a glossy, shiny coated sheepskin leather.—
Alexis Bennett Parker,
Vogue,
7 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Its glossy goatskin leather fabrication adds to the sumptuousness of it all.—
Alexis Bennett Parker,
Vogue,
7 Jan. 2025
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Creole chickens weave between our legs, a chunky pig snuffles across the dirt floor, and a dusty ginger cat snoozes on a goatskin chair.—
Lydia Bell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Dec. 2024
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Garvey, the former Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres first baseman and National League most valuable player in 1974, has played the baseball card to the hilt, even passing out autographed horsehides at many campaign stops.—
Thomas Elias,
The Mercury News,
9 Mar. 2024
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According to its founder, Gary Eastman, the business attired nearly every other character in the series, producing the brown B-3 jackets worn by Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan, and others, as well as the Type A-2 horsehide and Type B-10 cotton jackets that also feature throughout the series.—
Eric Twardzik,
Robb Report,
21 Feb. 2024
Noun
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The watch comes with two alligator leather and calfskin straps.—
Anthony DeMarco,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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While casual belts made from weighty leathers like bridle or pull-up are typically left unlined, finer hides used for dress belts including calfskin often require a lining.—
Eric Twardzik,
Robb Report,
27 Dec. 2024
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When small family dairy farms were numerous and dotted the countryside, and kids would play summer baseball without adults coaching.—
Tom Redman,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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The online network, which authorities claim promotes extremist ideology and coerces kids into hurting themselves is shocking in its details, though experts say crimes of this nature are growing.—
Andrea Marks,
Rolling Stone,
6 Feb. 2025
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Chaos ensues and the two ultimately assure mutual destruction as their fight escalates (and somehow an alligator is involved?).—
Rebecca Aizin,
People.com,
31 Jan. 2025
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Both of those came with alligator leather straps, while a full diamond bracelet version set with 1,318 round brilliant diamonds is set with a diamond bird resting on a ring of 30 baguette-cut Aquamarines.—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
31 Jan. 2025
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Shearling was also rendered in a hooded bomber jacket design and as a detail on the collar of deerskin leather flight jackets.—
Sandra Salibian,
WWD,
21 Jan. 2025
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Those settlers would have traded a pile of deerskins for a rifled barrel.—
The Editors,
Field & Stream,
23 Nov. 2023
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Hume and several of his contemporaries had a hypothesis: The snakeskin scared away predators.—
Kate Golembiewski,
New York Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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The snakeskin appeared to provide a deterrent to the squirrels.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Pigskin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pigskin. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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