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consume

[kuhn-soom] / kənˈsum /




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Our advice to fans for the next week: Consume loads of Antacids and Dramamine.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2022

Consume more food to increase fat as insulation.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Consume it as they do in the Veneto, as a "rasentin," the Venetian phrase for "rinse," by putting a few drops into a seemingly empty espresso cup to capture one last taste of the coffee.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2022

“Will Hanukkah Consume You?” and “Which One Of My Garbage Sons Are You?” are, to my mind, two of the most brilliant things ever published on the Internet.

From Slate • Jun. 29, 2015

Do the large, dark eyes, and the small, red mouth, Consume thine heart with a fiery drouth, Like the fierce sirocco that sweeps from the south, When the deserts are parch'd and dry?

From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop




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