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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

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

Is it a problem if I accidentally ingest one of these guys?

From Slate Jun. 11, 2026

They are put together to make cereal or snack food or chicken nuggets or TV dinners or just about anything else you can imagine and ingest.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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

All of the carbon in the trees and twigs the machine ingests ends up in the ground — not back in the air.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 30, 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

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

From Science Daily Jul. 8, 2026

“We’ve probably ingested more third-party qualitative analysis in the last six weeks than we have in our entire history, combined,” Lambert said.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 22, 2026

But its usage — both in food and beverage products, along with ingested drugs — prevailed for over three decades.

From Salon Apr. 11, 2026

For decades, however, people have been worrying that small doses of glyphosate ingested over the long term can cause cancer and other health issues.

From Slate Mar. 5, 2026

She had lived on ducks and shorebirds, and she had ingested DDT.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Last month it was reported a dog died after ingesting algae at Coniston Water.

From BBC Aug. 12, 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

France is mulling how to prevent people from ingesting too much of the heavy metal cadmium, after a warning their breakfast cereal and baguettes could be contaminated with the toxin.

From Barron's May 13, 2026

Did I worry about ingesting some horrid bacteria?

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel




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