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consume

[kuhn-soom] / kənˈsum /




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"Eating while distracted, for instance watching TV, can lead people to consume more because they pay less attention to how much they've eaten," says Higgs.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

"The story and the scale and the spectacle is something that the world, I think, is ready to consume."

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

In early September, the Voyager team successfully replaced three devices aboard Voyager 1 with alternatives that consume less electricity.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

So there’s no need for the rich to go into debt in order to consume.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

“She also warned you against letting your anger consume you,” I point out, raising my voice to try to pull him off Autumn.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

The U.S. itself consumes about 2.94 million barrels of diesel a day, so the entirety of the Russian deal would provide the U.S. with perhaps 12 days of diesel supply.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Spending another 15 minutes searching for a particular brand of yogurt may represent good service, but it also consumes time that a worker could otherwise spend completing another order.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

The United States consumes 3.9 million barrels of diesel per day.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

When a black hole actively consumes gas, it can release tremendous amounts of energy and heat nearby material.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

In Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body’s energy when the body is at rest.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Deforestation monitor Nusantara Atlas estimates the blazes consumed more than 1.9 million hectares of land in the first nine months of the year.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

He explained that officers' time was being consumed "investigating trivial matters".

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Consequentially, the two biggest legal challenges that consumed the days leading up to the midterms have effectively been shut down.

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026

Beyond the improvements in blood vessel function and blood pressure, participants eating mango and avocado consumed more fiber, vitamin C, and monounsaturated fat.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Each day, she seemed to drift further away, to become more insubstantial; it was as if she had the same peculiar wasting illness that had consumed Minnie.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

During his rookie season in 2020, the Chargers quarterback told GQ magazine he was “living off” the sandwiches, consuming both a Steak Philly sub and a Chicken & Bacon Ranch sub each night for dinner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

“I’m going to do this no matter what happens, and I think that once people’s teeth fall out from consuming all this sugary AI, they’ll come looking for something human.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

The team discovered that consuming high amounts of dietary cholesterol activates Ral, setting off a chain of events that leads to the loss of LDL receptors.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

Researchers cannot conclude from this study that consuming these sweeteners directly damages the brain or causes memory loss.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

The colors deepened, glorifying Ishtar and pushing Nergal into a darkness that verged on consuming existence.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda


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