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Recent Examples of glutton
Long-range gluttons are colliding with 3-point stranglers.
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Fred Katz, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Ever a glutton for executive orders, Trump has signed nearly 70 so far.
—Nicole Russell, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
The Suns may thwart a fast break, but end up with a tiny guard trying to keep a glass glutton off the boards.
—Fred Katz, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
In the early 1980s, in the 1990s, returning like a malarial fever, the enemy was the Medfly, the Mediterranean fruit fly — pest, parasite, glutton for our golden harvests, despoiler of sunny citrus and rosy peaches, murderer of guacamole avocados.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
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Fred Katz, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Ever a glutton for executive orders, Trump has signed nearly 70 so far.
—Nicole Russell, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
The Suns may thwart a fast break, but end up with a tiny guard trying to keep a glass glutton off the boards.
—Fred Katz, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
In the early 1980s, in the 1990s, returning like a malarial fever, the enemy was the Medfly, the Mediterranean fruit fly — pest, parasite, glutton for our golden harvests, despoiler of sunny citrus and rosy peaches, murderer of guacamole avocados.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for glutton
Noun
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One pig, Walter, has his own indoor tent.—
Eric Adler
April 26,
Kansas City Star,
26 Apr. 2026
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The block around Fernando Mendoza’s home in Coral Gables, Florida was roped off by early afternoon on Thursday and the roast pig – a lechon asado to Cubans like the Mendozas – was in the Caja China all day.—
Armando Salguero OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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But these included prices of wheat, hogs, timber, iron ore and other primary products.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
26 Apr. 2026
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These plants are notorious energy hogs, consuming nearly 4 percent of the country’s total electricity to process municipal waste.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Glutton.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glutton. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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