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gobble

[gob-uhl] / ˈgɒb əl /


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The sprawling, power-hungry sites, used to store critical IT infrastructure like servers, are being built worldwide by companies and countries as AI applications gobble ever greater computing power.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

Such allusions leave “Backrooms” open to charges of being derivative; Mr. Parsons is of a generation that has a tendency to gobble up content and issue reworked versions of it.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

“Sinners” is the most exciting film of 2025, both for what it is and for what it proves: that fresh blockbusters still exist and people are eager to gobble them up.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2025

Jackrabbits or other critters that need the water encased in the plant often gobble them up.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 2025

It was so good, she had to remember her manners and not gobble it down.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Meanwhile, the consumer-electronics world faces an acute memory-chip shortage, as AI-infrastructure demand gobbles up semiconductor supplies and thus threatens to drive up the price of things like smartphones and laptops.

From MarketWatch Apr. 25, 2026

The idea is to ensure XTX can keep training its models cheaply even as the AI boom gobbles up ever more data-center capacity worldwide.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 2026

The stock has soared as it expands its nearly 3,000-location footprint, gobbles up market share, and delivers some of the most consistent performance in retail.

From Barron's Dec. 4, 2025

Once again, our heroine is a steely, scrappy young woman who has a single vice — Weaving’s Grace had a penchant for cigarettes; Barrera’s Joey gobbles hard candy.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 16, 2024

She gobbles up the last bite of cake.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

I wrote a daily newsletter about energy policy at the time, and, in my efforts to be at the forefront of the news, I gobbled up those nuggets as well.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

On the remote east side of Mono Lake, he said the animals gobbled down grass, roots and all, depriving certain birds of the worms that live in the vegetation — their sustenance.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2026

IPO-crazed investors have gobbled up stock offerings from a data-center buyer, AI provider, chip maker, automotive-software developer and geothermal power producer.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 2026

Since the books became an international phenomenon, we’ve lined up for the resulting movies, gobbled up licensed merchandise, and bought tickets to its hit play and theme parks.

From Salon Apr. 2, 2026

Paganini hopped over right away at the smell of the cilantro and gobbled it up, his back molars crunching away happily.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

Chinese car manufacturers are gobbling up European market share, especially in electric vehicles, and are rapidly expanding market share at the expense of the European automobile companies.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 2026

Tech giants are gobbling up memory chips for AI servers, leaving Apple with soaring component costs that Tim Cook says will inevitably be passed on to consumers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 2026

The marauding monkeys brazenly snatch ice cream, cakes and crisps from unwitting tourists in addition to gobbling abandoned leftovers from bins or food directly offered to them.

From Barron's May 22, 2026

Now the redwoods are regrowing, “gorgeous” and gobbling carbon, she said.

From Los Angeles Times May 10, 2026

Sea otters invaded streams and ponds, gobbling up freshwater fish and driving out many of the longtime residents.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown




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