devoured
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These AI companies are stocked with “rationalists” and “effective altruism” folks who devoured neo-Luddite Eliezer Yudkowsky’s 2025 book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Pre-IPO allocations have been devoured by wealthy investors, and post-IPO trading is expected to be truly avaricious.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
"Books devoured me, they ate me," she said.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
It arrived at the peak of unscripted television’s popularity — a period when audiences devoured shows like “Survivor” and “American Idol” at their regularly scheduled times on television.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
“The sphinxes,” she said, “told us that the Immortal had a dryad-wood boat. The last Immortal put it in the dining room, when he left the palace to be devoured by Time.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
