eat
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Nobody likes to eat and then not feel good afterwards, right?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Birds, particularly water birds, will mistake it for food or grit and eat it, and that is ground down in their stomachs.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
This imbalance suggests that focusing primarily on what people should eat less of may be overlooking an important opportunity to improve cardiovascular health by encouraging them to consume more of a beneficial nutrient.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Dad handed us the envelope at a Sunday dinner, with a pot roast going cold on the table because he wouldn’t let anyone eat until he’d made his speech.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
“Do you mind terribly if we don’t stay? I seem to have lost my appetite and I don’t think I can sit still to watch you two eat a whole meal.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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There are meaningful differences, of course, between a stranger navigating an unfamiliar shopping list and a husband who should know what his own family eats.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
In the world's most populous country, the need for high-end hospitality workers is immense, fuelled by economic growth and the rise of a middle class that travels more and increasingly eats at plush establishments.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Sofiyka eats biscuits with herbal tea as she gets ready for bed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
“The flavor’s there. It eats right. It bites right. But see what I mean?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Sometimes she eats in her room, but she usually joins the others in the cafeteria.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Inflation obviously ate into some of those gains.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 2026
"Lots of people planted vegetable gardens. We ate whatever was available. Well, thank God, we're here now," the 29-year-old added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
His small crowd chortled and ate it up.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
Boeing BA -0.02%decrease; down pointing triangle posted another quarterly loss after higher costs ate into profits within its commercial-jet business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
For breakfast they ate fruits and fried empanadas stuffed with salty cheese and covered in crystal sugar.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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About $12,000 went toward the wedding, and the rest went into the house, which has since eaten a new water heater and a roof repair nobody warned us about.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Five years ago, a $30 million cap hit would’ve eaten up 16% of a team’s ledgers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
BMW and Volkswagen have both already cut their guidance for the year as sluggish demand combined with cut-throat competition from Chinese local rivals such as BYD and Xiaomi have eaten into profits.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
The meat consumption figures represent the typical amounts eaten by participants in each group.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Now if we ever come across a human, we pretend we’re going to eat them and then we allow them to escape, so they can tell everyone how they were nearly eaten by trolls.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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On Monday, she wrote that Silver-Fajardo was “completely immobilized and cannot lift her head much so we need to help with sips of water, eating, brushing her teeth, etc.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
An ape capable of eating a wider range of foods would have been better equipped to cope with those fluctuations.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
“I like it when I am eating, but not the smell you get when you walk into a dinner party and it overpowers the room.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Six months ago, my wildest dreams consisted entirely of paying off my credit card debt and eating beef once in a while; I am very familiar with the seething rage such articles provoke.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
I tried to brush off the feeling, especially when I sat with my aunts in the warmth of their home, eating their good food, and watching their magical spinning and knitting and weaving.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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