eat away

Example Sentences

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“The Complex” works instead by painstaking accretion—or rather, by erosion, recording in granular detail all the lies and violations that eat away at the Chopras’ respectable facade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Shares in the London Stock Exchange Group have fallen as much as 20% this year as investors fear that companies like Anthropic, the AI group, will eat away at its data and analytics business.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 2026

Investors are assessing whether AI could eat away at the broker industry’s lucrative advisory fees and commissions while virtually eliminating niche businesses such as appraisal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Another trend instilling fear in the market: rising memory prices, which are expected to eat away at Fortinet’s profits.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

My skin is crawling, like I can feel the B. cepacia looking for a way to slip inside and eat away at me.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott