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consume

[kuhn-soom] / kənˈsum /




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Consume fresh broccoli within three days; after that, it'll start to become limp and no one wants that.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2022

Consume these materials together, pick them apart, respond to them.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2021

Consume, he notes, is from the Latin consumere, meaning “to seize or take over completely”.

From The Guardian • Jan. 5, 2021

The parameter β1 was called the Marginal Propensity to Consume in Macroeconomics Principles.

From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017

Now, fearful lest this unproductive strife Consume at once my fortune and my life, I take the only course I can pursue, And shun my debtor and my lawyer too.

From Notes and Queries, Number 23, April 6, 1850 by Various




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