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consumption

[kuhn-suhmp-shuhn] / kənˈsʌmp ʃən /


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Chinese state media have hailed this “sweet economy” as a new engine for consumption.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

This week will bring the September jobs report and data on personal consumption, manufacturing, and home prices.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Analysts are forecasting the August headline personal consumption expenditures price index to rise 0.4% month over month from 0.2% in July, while remaining unchanged at 3.7% year over year.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026

"Understanding how the brain balances energy supply and consumption may help explain what makes biological intelligence so efficient," explains lead investigator Yusuke Takahashi.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Despite its passing resemblance to the lobster, it should on no account be eaten, as its flesh is unfit for human consumption and will result in a high fever and an unsightly greenish rash.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling

Cutting meat consumptions — particularly red meat, particularly in high-income countries — represents an opportunity to lower methane emissions.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2024

Because of Covid-19 and the sanctions, this trade was stopped - and his relatives had to sell for domestic consumptions for a much lower return, making it "hard to survive".

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024

Religious celebrations — what with sacred slaughters, a stress on all things kosher, ritualized consumptions — are a particular point of tension for Jews who eat vegan.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2021

Each individual has to pay for their own consumptions choices.

From Forbes ● Apr. 5, 2015

Amongst these are obstructions, distention of the body, rickets, scrophula, slow fevers, consumptions, and convulsion fits.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton




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