consume
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Balds — fish lovers themselves — can consume hooks and sinkers when they gobble down their prey, potentially poisoning them, Koh said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Beijing wants “to move up the ladder fast and dominate technologies. For that, the fact that people consume and go to the cinema doesn’t really help.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Cyclospora is spread when people consume foods or drink water that are contaminated with feces.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
Most of the released material consisted of proteins and carbohydrates that free-living deep ocean microbes can readily consume.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
It was inappropriate, in my opinion, to consume the candy Mr. Pirzada gave me in a casual manner.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
By comparison, the typical U.S. adult consumes 3.6 servings of dark green vegetables and legumes and 2.6 servings of whole grains each day.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
The first chapter still consumes me with grief, anger, and inherited trauma.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
This separation is a phase change that consumes energy, inducing a cooling effect, like when steam evaporates off a cup of hot water.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
Scientists and engineers are still trying to build a system that reliably produces more energy than it consumes, and many experts consider commercial fusion a decade or more away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
“What consumes your mind, Fred, controls your life.”
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
“Detection is really difficult, and most often the produce item being implicated has been consumed, and there is nothing left to test.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
At the protest site in the capital Delhi, he began fasting on 28 June and has consumed nothing but salt and water since then, losing more than 9kg.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
During the war, service members consumed more than five billion bottles of Coke.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Among participants younger than 60, those who consumed the most sweeteners experienced faster declines in verbal fluency and overall cognitive performance than those who consumed the least.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
“We consumed most of our small remaining stock of luxuries,” he wrote later.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Some research has found that consuming them can lead to health problems, including irregular heartbeats and high blood pressure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
When organisms died, their remains sank and decomposed, consuming oxygen in the surrounding water.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
“It’s honestly not in my nature to bet on things. I was tempted by ‘Love Island’ because it’s what I’m consuming multiple times a week,” McDuffie said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
When Lillard was diagnosed in the mid 1950's, talk and concern of the incurable disease was all consuming.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Comparing texts word by word turned out to be quite the consuming task.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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