consume
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The doses were designed to resemble amounts that a person might reasonably consume as part of a normal diet.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
He would return to the U.S. every summer and consume everything from “The Outer Limits” to “Alice,” a sitcom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The amount of water data centres consume can change based on size, design and local climate - the hotter the area the more water needed to cool the equipment.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Data centers expected to consume as much as 54.5 gigawatts of power are under construction across the U.S. today, with tech companies themselves building about 53% of that capacity, the analysts say in a report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
I preferred it to hamburgers or hot dogs, the only alternative I could afford in the coffee shops on Massachusetts Avenue, and, besides, at the time I had yet to consume any beef.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Rent now consumes 40% of Roe’s $83,000 gross income, roughly the median household income in the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
"Usually, it takes more power to store more information. Our device, however, consumes 100 times less power and the storage capacity is higher than traditional storage devices, like flash drives."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
But California still consumes 1.8 million barrels of oil each day, more than any other U.S. state except Texas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Murrill told lawmakers last year that defending the state against these claims consumes an enormous amount of time and resources and that the fund should be abolished altogether.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
How a four horse team whipped into a run on a straightaway consumes the road, surging and surging over it!
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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The northbound Glendale Freeway was closed briefly for a small brush fire Wednesday afternoon while, to the south, fire crews battled a blaze in Orange County that quickly consumed more than 200 acres.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
U.S. smelters produced 660,000 tons of primary aluminum in 2025, but the country consumed 5.7 million tons.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Culture that is primarily consumed by one generation does not inherently make it of that generation.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
How many Americans actually consumed what the alleged bot farm was feeding them and to what extent were they influenced by it?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Moni; Rajesh; Jagu: three lives consumed by variants of mental illness.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Theater, in other words, that was creating a sense of belonging and not simply stoking an appetite for consuming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Prof. Roche said the findings show for the first time that consuming yeast beta-glucan in the diet is enough to trigger trained immunity by altering bone marrow stem cells.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
The American Farm Bureau Federation warned in May, however, that Americans are consuming more beef than US farmers and ranchers can supply.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Even before this year’s run-up, interest on the debt was consuming a bigger slice of the federal budget.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
We did not know the name of whatever was consuming this tiny girl and the doctors could not explain the nature of the problem.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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