eating

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Some have taken out high-interest loans against their settlement, which are eating up a greater percentage of their payout with each passing year.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Save room for dessert, especially the kanom krok, a crispy round pancake filled with coconut cream that’s lightly sweet and impossible to stop eating.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

Then, when those larvae are born into screwworm flies, they start eating, and what they are eating is what they have right there: the flesh of the animal that its mother laid the larvae into.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

I know you say you’re pretty far from a town, but it might help to make the option of eating at a restaurant available to everyone.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

Perhaps they aren’t that bad, but they do smell awful when they’re cooked and it takes a lot of sugar to make high-bush cranberry jelly worth eating.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen