consume
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The official urged the public not to consume meat from animals that die naturally or from unknown causes, while urging the public to report any such cases.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
While Americans would not spend all of the $5,000, a reasonable assumption is that they would spend more than 60%, or what economists call the marginal propensity to consume.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Across the Northern Hemisphere, farmers consume large quantities of diesel during harvest season to power tractors, combines and other machinery, while colder weather later in the year typically boosts demand for heating fuels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Constantly thinking about money and bills may consume mental resources, leaving less capacity available for other cognitive tasks.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
Insulin injections encouraged Woolf to gain weight, and to manage his diabetes he needed to consume regular, high- protein, low-carbohydrate meals—meats were recommended—which also added pounds.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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In the United States, that hidden water use can be twice the amount a data center consumes on its own.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
To deal with the water shortages along the Colorado River, others have suggested policies that encourage farmers to grow less hay — which consumes nearly half of the water diverted from the river.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Rent now consumes 40% of Roe’s $83,000 gross income, roughly the median household income in the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Instead of reducing the amount of energy a person consumes, their approach is designed to increase the amount of energy the body uses by raising metabolic activity.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
How a four horse team whipped into a run on a straightaway consumes the road, surging and surging over it!
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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They had significantly higher levels of oxalate in their stool than people without IBD, even though the two groups regularly consumed similar amounts of plant-based foods.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Wild orangutans have been put under pressure in recent weeks by forest fires that have plagued the region and consumed swathes of Borneo island.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
It will be able to accumulate enough water to provide 10 to 15 additional transits per day or about the same volume consumed by drinking water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
“I’d been so consumed with video treatments and merch designs, to where it was like, ‘Oh, I’m a practicing rapper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
“Gaea opened the earth, and I was consumed, exiled here in the belly of my father Tartarus, where all the useless flotsam collects—all the bits of creation he does not care for.”
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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“You see a lot of people consuming the minimum, what they need to get by through the week,” said owner Carina Murillo, 31, as she checked out customers on a recent weekday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The model is only scaffolding, which, after consuming vast amounts of training data and running trillions of permutations, arrives at an outcome that can’t be known beforehand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
European countries are consuming less gas than in 2022 as they increasingly switch to renewables to generate electricity.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Using this method, the team created a framework for designing ultrafast magnetic-field pulses that can switch magnetic states while consuming as little energy as possible.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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