consume
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Cyclospora is spread when people consume foods or drink water that are contaminated with feces.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
We consume lists of the worst airports and wonder at accounts of illness-plagued cruises.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
The publisher push comes as Netflix faces mounting pressure from platforms that have reshaped how audiences consume video.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
At Northeastern University’s Reinventing Local TV News Project, we conducted a national survey of Americans aged 18 to 34 who consume news weekly on at least one platform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
The Chiclets were his to hold before the doctor saw him, and to consume after.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Google consumes around three times as much water indirectly as directly, according to a paper published earlier this year by Alex de Vries-Gao, a researcher at the Netherlands-based university VU Amsterdam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
The first chapter still consumes me with grief, anger, and inherited trauma.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
When an employee asks AI for help, the request consumes digital tokens, which are the currency of LLMs and a cost of doing business.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
With its focus on cutting-edge technology, it consumes the lion's share of the national intelligence budget.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
The art consumes me in a deeper way than it has before, the colors on the poster more real, throbbing with all the emotions in my heart.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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"I think we're all very worried that Alberta politics could be consumed by this forever," Hogan said.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
When the animals consumed a low-fiber diet, the tapeworms were several times smaller, never reached sexual maturity, and failed to produce eggs.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
The enriched flour, high-fructose corn syrup, and tallow that help make up the American classic give each small sponge cake about 65 days to be consumed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
"If Buddhism is consumed merely as a 'good image', its newfound hipness may prove to be little more than a passing trend," said an editorial in the Hyunbulnews newspaper, a Buddhist outlet.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
Absently and when a subject had so consumed and excited him, he would write with the cigarette and smoke the chalk.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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We spoke to seven different men around the world who were all consuming fertility "stacks" to get their fertility back after taking TRT.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Oil refineries in big consuming countries like South Korea or Japan need time to conduct compliance and legal due diligence to buy Iranian crude, said Tom Reed, head of oil market analysis at Argus Media.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Wood is concerned that it’s not just their cashflow they are consuming so rapidly, but the rate at which they are incurring debt.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
Several studies, including one from the UC Cooperative Extension of Sonoma County, have shown that consuming produce in a fire-affected area poses minimal health risks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
He glanced toward the kitchen, which the flames were consuming with glee, and headed across the living room toward Angel’s bedroom.
From "Forged by Fire" by Sharon M. Draper
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