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ingest

[in-jest] / ɪnˈdʒɛst /
VERB
swallow
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST


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It found that balloons were 32 times more likely to result in death than when birds ingest hard plastic.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

I ditched the cans, not because I’m an angel about what I ingest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

They’d ingest all of your financial information into their software and would have checklists to make sure they got all the relevant information.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

Nanoplastics are already a concern because people may ingest them directly, but new research points to another possible danger.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

In 1880 Dr. Carlos Finlay of Havana, Cuba, captured mosquitoes and let them ingest the blood of patients suffering from yellow fever.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

Everlab’s platform ingests and organizes documents and data from doctors, specialists and pathologists, compiling patient records that it augments with real-time data from users’ existing wearable devices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Frightful extras: The included Blu-ray version of the film ingests all of the digital goodies from the high definition release back in 2009.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

But there are other risk factors for TCE exposure, which occurs when a person breathes, ingests or touches the chemical.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023

The level of exposure and the associated risk is dependent on how much erythritol one ingests.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2023

One ingests a horse-doctor's dose of words, but fails to acquire any illumination.

From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

Yuan said she’d dealt with years of chronic health issues and believed her dad’s death last September was due to some of the contaminated water he ingested.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Microfibers can be ingested through food or water but also inhaled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

This means only about 1% of the ingested drug is absorbed and able to exert its effects.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026

As well as posing a choking hazard, pieces of plastic can cause damage to the digestive system if ingested.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

I have looked through my father’s World War II scrapbook many times; I have seen Vietnam on television; I have ingested countless movies about Ancient Rome or the battles of the Middle Ages.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Prior to ingesting the water, her father had manageable hypertension and walked six miles daily, she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

It’s a position that has put Palantir at odds with leading AI labs, whom Karp has characterized as looking to “colonize” their customers by ingesting their business intelligence and proprietary data.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

According to state figures, external, 286 people there have been infected by cyclosporiasis - which comes from ingesting the cyclospora parasite, and includes symptoms like "explosive diarrhoea".

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Research into microplastics, and even smaller nanoplastics, has sparked widespread concern about how everything from food packaging to microbeads in cosmetics is shedding tiny bits of material that we could be ingesting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

We bite into them together, as if ingesting an enemy’s secret poison.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan




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