gobble
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Balds — fish lovers themselves — can consume hooks and sinkers when they gobble down their prey, potentially poisoning them, Koh said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
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
Huge exporters—including the U.S.—are vying to gobble up market share in a world where the prospect for demand growth was already uncertain before a once-in-a-generation energy shock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Jackrabbits or other critters that need the water encased in the plant often gobble them up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
Aunty Silver gives me a few idlis for Rani when she wakes up, and I continue to gobble up as many as I can stuff into my stomach.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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The answer, for that sample, was: mostly Desmodesmus, a green algae that gobbles up phosphorus and nitrogen.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026
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
Market research firms like IDC and Counterpoint Research have indicated that the weakness is in the Android market, while Apple gobbles up market share amid a memory chip shortage.
From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026
Joe Six Stock gobbles up Beyond Meat, Palantir and everything AI because everyone else is buying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
There were tootles and grumbles and rumbles and sighs and gobbles and giggles and even a woof.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
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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
“Anything that is available in the United States is gobbled up immediately,” Murphy said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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
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
As soon as any light touched the water, it sank beneath the surface and disappeared, gobbled up by the darkness.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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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
Rather, streaming platforms are gobbling up a growing share of ad dollars as their audiences expand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
It was well-fed, Cora observed, gobbling down the treats and bones offered by the citizens.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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