Pigs
noun
Bay of. Bay of Pigs.
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Pigs
American
[pigz]
/ pɪgz /
noun
Pigs
1
British
/ pɪɡz /
noun
pigs
2
British
/ pɪɡz /
interjection
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The group was founded in 1991 by Jose Basulto, a Cuban exile, licensed pilot and veteran of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
Notice something else: The Bay of Pigs fiasco produced the Cuban Missile Crisis 18 months later, and only then a new stability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Good studied creative writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and in 2020 she won an undergraduate prize from the Academy of American Poets for her piece titled On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026
Perhaps the most famous American fiasco in the region was the Bay of Pigs.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2025
Pigs breed exuberantly and can pass diseases to deer and turkeys, which then can infect people.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Some players are frustrated as they feel they have become guinea pigs on the global stage.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
He’s also accustomed to the oinks from pigs he raises for his grandchildren and other kids to show at 4-H.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
But when Bash noted that generative AI is too new for comprehensive long-term studies and asked whether students were effectively becoming “guinea pigs for chatbots,” McMahon acknowledged the evidence is still developing.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
They dedicated their business to raising pigs, and then cattle, in a humane and environmentally sound way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Later, he toiled on the prison farm, where he tended pigs and other animals the way he had during his early days on the frontier.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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