devour

I still devour new music this way, clocking a daily average of four hours of tunes familiar and novel.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

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

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

“Something huge. It had scales. They felt like steel. Then it dove deep, and launched itself toward the surface. I could feel its hunger. It wanted to devour me.”

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

He doesn’t watch television or movies but he devours business podcasts and personal stories of entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026

In India's tech capital Bengaluru, the morning "rush hour" lasts so long it devours half the workday, throttling productivity in a city often viewed as the poster child of a booming economy.

From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025

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

In his 60s, he remains a marvel of gyroscopic elegance, a small man who devours space largely.

From New York Times ● May 27, 2024

I mention it to no one, but it devours my waking hours and weaves itself throughout my nightmares.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

Such heat contributed to ideal conditions for wildfires that devoured swathes of land across the continent.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

At the fan convention, Serena Nguyen, 22, said she devoured the entire “Off Campus” book series during a difficult period in high school.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 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

Who cared about the lettuce when the beef was being devoured?

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

An NBA player swears it brought him good luck after devouring it the night before a big game.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Farmers worldwide had hoped China’s 1.4 billion mouths would continue devouring more foreign produce.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

The fire erupted Tuesday in the Var region and spread at an unexpectedly fast pace, forcing some 400 people to evacuate and devouring 2,550 hectares.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

There's no telling when the creature in there will come to life, snarling and roaring, devouring the trash that comes hurtling down chutes from the apartments above.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins