eat
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Anna-Louise said: "If you wake up and you've had a bad night's sleep, you eat more, you feel more irritable."
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Children can be at risk particularly in school lunchrooms, where they often eat quickly and are distracted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
In some regions, insurance costs eat up an even bigger chunk of budgets.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
When a seal like Violet won’t eat on its own, caretakers use a tube to feed it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
After biting off a piece and tossing it to Wolf, he began to eat.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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“What it takes to be consistent is her routine, from how she eats to how she shows up every day. She doesn’t miss a rep,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
“There’s no way a fish eats that. It looks like absolutely nothing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
McDonald’s becomes not merely something Trump eats or campaigns beside, but part of the visual vocabulary through which people understand him.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Nvidia’s earnings call later this month could give Wall Street and investors “critically needed assurance on its go-forward role in vendor financing,” Arya said, which eats into its free cash flow.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Way he usually eats, I’m surprised the fish hasn’t disappeared straight from the bones, but he’s focusing on his fingers and the fish’s spine like he’s trying to thread a needle.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
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I still think about a shokupan dog I ate years ago at a Japanese bakery in Washington whose name I have entirely forgotten, though apparently not its merchandise.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
"From the age of 15, after I ate or drank something, I was gone, as if you're going to go into an operation," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The area is littered with massive piles of shells called middens, left by indigenous groups who ate the river’s wild oysters for more than a thousand years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Even though we just ate, we are already thinking about where we should go for dinner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
I made my way across the castle grounds to the stables, where I ate the rest of the bread from my satchel.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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A music festival set to feature The Killers, Olivia Dean and Jack White was cancelled Friday because the California beach where it was to be held has been eaten away by coastal erosion.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Another is that computer-memory costs have gone through the roof because memory-intensive AI data centers have eaten up supply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
They can be eaten raw and contain high levels of compounds called plasmalogens.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Along Point Dume in Malibu, ocean waves have eaten away some 60 feet of sand, threatening a road essential to accessing the parking lot, according to the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Ikaika says, and he opens his eyes in time to see the second surfer get eaten by whitewash.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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“The boomers who are traveling and eating out won’t cut demand just because the fed funds rate rose by 25 basis points,” LPL Financial chief economist Jeffrey Roach wrote in a note Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Their basic needs are eating and feeling safe, and they’ll connect the dots that you’re the one providing those things.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
"This is the first step to showing time-restricted eating could be a safe, potentially effective method for people with Type 1 diabetes to manage their blood sugar levels," Varady said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Photographs and videos widely shared online show the young apes sitting together on the forest floor and eating bananas, thousands of kilometres from the tropical rainforests where they belong.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The pot was full of broth and vegetables I hadn’t seen in ages, even though I had been eating a lot.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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