piglet
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Origin of piglet
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The best way to estimate the full-grown size of a piglet is by its parents, Rosen said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
It was the only tennis match to start with a piglet being handed over to one of the competitors - but this was no ordinary match.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025
The phrase “Balls to the Walz” was everywhere, as were pictures of the Minnesota governor nestling a piglet in his arms with a beaming smile.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2024
A photo of him beaming while holding a piglet checked the state fair campaign stop box, the difference being that he looks genuinely ecstatic to be cuddling it.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2024
“Alice has been talking to this pig for months, and she wasn’t a piglet when they met. Maybe we’re just not on their course.”
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Beguiled by photos of teensy piglets, she chose the runt of the litter—a tiny, shivering nugget for $350.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Also known as water bears and moss piglets, tardigrades sport blobby physiques, lumbering gaits and perfectly circular mouths stuck in the middle of their otherwise-featureless faces.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024
On Clarkson's Farm, he has shown an interest in doing what he can to make his holding ecologically sound and was visibly upset when piglets were inadvertently killed by their mother.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2024
“The best thing about the piglet yoga was, of course, the piglets and how cute they are,” Delbridge said with a jubilant smile.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024
In contrast, human mothers in the New Guinea highlands often nurse piglets, and pigs as well as cows are frequently kept inside the huts of peasant farmers.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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