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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

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

If you ingest too much swainsonine you are bound to starve, no matter how much food you put into your stomach.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

The novel begins when Gelsomina ingests five parasitic worms after lapping up lake water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

She declares herself a powerful deity and explains that God is essentially a “tube” that constantly ingests and secretes experiences and things.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025

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

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 Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 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

She said the nurdles could affect wildlife in various ways, including getting stuck in animal digestive tracts and adsorbing chemicals which then may be toxic to wildlife when ingested.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

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

“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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Armed with LLMs capable of ingesting massive quantities of data, companies can fight back and more accurately model consumer behavior and deliver personalized results.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

"Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that would produce a high-quality product," he said.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

But with AI models both ingesting and creating data at breakneck speed, demand and pricing growth for data storage looks durable, Morgan Stanley argued.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

More plausibly, he told of feeding his initial sample by eyedropper to a mouse, which showed no ill effects after ingesting what was then “the world supply” of heavy water.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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