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
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
I don’t think it’s great if you accidentally ingest one of them.
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
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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
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
If a condor ingests too much shiny stuff and the digestive blockage grows too big, it dies.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 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
That’s the kind of “between the systems” information that needs to be written down so it can be ingested by AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
I’ve ingested a lot of Funkadelic, a lot of Prince, a lot of the Gap Band.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 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
She had lived on ducks and shorebirds, and she had ingested DDT.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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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
"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
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
Did I worry about ingesting some horrid bacteria?
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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