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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

We inhale and ingest them from almost everything we touch, breathe, eat and drink.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

And you can ingest the parasite and not feel the impact of it for weeks.

From Slate Jul. 17, 2026

"Don't forget these. They're popular now. The Minister of Health says we all should ingest colorful vegetables and even flowers. It's beneficial, supposedly."

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 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

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

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

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

From Salon Apr. 11, 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

The court documents relating to the Anthropic case revealed the project of ingesting old books was referred to in internal company communications as "Project Panama."

From BBC Aug. 15, 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

With AI both ingesting and producing seemingly endless volumes of data, demand for storage solutions has exploded over the past year.

From Barron's Jun. 23, 2026

The workers, who marked watch dials with luminous radium paint, customarily licked their brushes to a fine point, ingesting the radioactive substance.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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