ingest
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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
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
And you can ingest the parasite and not feel the impact of it for weeks.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
This is the dark matter of nutrition – the compounds we ingest daily but haven’t been mapped or studied.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
Like some members of the reptile family, dwarf males can unhinge their jaws, allowing them to ingest several pounds of earth a second.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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The novel begins when Gelsomina ingests five parasitic worms after lapping up lake water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Both fall into the field of “generative AI,” or AI that ingests vast quantities of data and can then output nominally original media based on patterns it deciphers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
The reaction, called alpha-gal syndrome, occurs when an infected person eats beef, pork, venison or other meat from mammals - or ingests milk, gelatin or other mammal products.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 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
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
I’ve ingested a lot of Funkadelic, a lot of Prince, a lot of the Gap Band.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Even a day later, contemplating this willfully nauseating work carries much the same sensation as having ingested a plate of bad clams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
"However, the container which fell was left behind and it got ingested into the No. 2 engine of the aircraft," Air India added.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
Once ingested, the coating dissolves, releasing both the medication and the antenna.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 13, 2026
“Connected, infected, ingested, digested—I can feel our destination in my gut. It’s the only nourishment I need!”
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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A 2019 study by the University of Tasmania, published in Scientific Reports, found balloons were "the highest-risk plastic debris item" for seabirds, carrying a mortality risk 32 times higher than ingesting hard plastics.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
Feeding deer may also increase the risk of them ingesting plastic, which blocks their stomachs and causes malnutrition.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Much depends on what’s raising your body temperature in the first place — if you have a fever due to an infection, for example, see a doctor rather than ingesting peppermint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 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
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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