devour

A 1-gigawatt AI data center can devour roughly as much electricity as 1,000 Walmart stores, or the entire city of San Francisco.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

For him and his family, this is a rare chance to devour durians "of good quality, and sometimes at nearly half the price of previous seasons".

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Postsurgery, she began to devour several novels a week—but only about romance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

The company has seen the Gen Z audiences devour hits of yesteryear such as “How I Met Your Mother,” “Modern Family” and “Golden Girls.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025

Woo reaches down, snatches a couple of plantains, and flips back onto the top of the tent to devour his newly acquired treats.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

"If you don't run from it and you try to face it, it devours you," Ecologio Cabrera, 86, told AFP after fleeing with nothing.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

That hot, hard rock devours conventional drill bits and makes a hash of the concrete usually poured deep underground around the steel pipes required to line such a well and keep it from collapsing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

The practical jokes on the show appeal to a younger generation that devours prank videos — from MrBeast to Dude Perfect — across YouTube and other social media platforms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025

In the show, rare glimpses of his inner turmoil come when he devours a lemon tart or a chocolate bar with a pleasureless intensity.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

He grabs the crab from behind as it emerges from its hole and rips off the claws and throws them away and then devours the rest of the crab.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

He played football for his school team, devoured Harry Potter and Percy Jackson novels, loved science-fiction films and spent hours teaching himself hard-rock guitar riffs.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

The blaze had devoured an area nearly twice the size of Manhattan by Friday morning.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

It arrived at the peak of unscripted television’s popularity — a period when audiences devoured shows like “Survivor” and “American Idol” at their regularly scheduled times on television.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

"We have tentatively suggested that the long palps might allow the male to keep a safer distance during mating and help him avoid being attacked and devoured by the highly aggressive female."

From Science Daily ● Apr. 6, 2026

He had finished his steak, sliced and devoured it like a starving man.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

Scavenger animals such as possums, red foxes and crows can be exposed to the virus while devouring the carcasses of infected birds.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

Fanned by wind, intense heat and exceptionally dry air, the fire has nearly tripled in size since early Sunday, devouring 4,600 hectares and leaving a firefighter and a resident injured, local authorities said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

She never finished high school, but compensated for her incomplete education by devouring books and absorbing ideas.

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026

“Work was really devouring me,” Luis Saavedra said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026

He pecks for a moment at the scarecrow’s pole that rises in the center of the whirlpool eye, dislodging a tiny phosphorescent sea slug and devouring it.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman