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gobble

[gob-uhl] / ˈgɒb əl /


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The deal comes as AI data centers gobble up power, leaving companies worried about their ability to secure sufficient energy for future endeavors.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

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 one that goes first is likely to gobble up more of the increasingly scarce capital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

For all the recent worries that AI will destroy whole industries and gobble up tech’s cash, Chronert says the ongoing spending boom will boost profits this year.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

And beneath them, down in the clear water, yard-long catfish lay on the sandy bottom, waiting to gobble up any young birds that happened to fall out of the nests.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

Its fantastical elements, from the ambush on Troy led by Matt Damon’s Odysseus to a giant cyclops that gobbles his men in a cave, were created primarily with physical effects for a more visceral impact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

The answer, for that sample, was: mostly Desmodesmus, a green algae that gobbles up phosphorus and nitrogen.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026

The story is simple: The dad flusters, fidgets and whines; the girl gobbles room service as though aspiring to become human foie gras.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 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

“Young Nathan,” First Turkey said in between gobbles.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

But they are increasingly working together with Chinese competitors in overseas markets, where Chinese carmakers have gobbled up market share.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

All that promise started to wither around 2015, as social media giants gobbled up more and more of the profits that kept earlier hangouts afloat.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

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

I gobbled it in a trice, then tried standing again.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

For close to two decades, this crowd-pleasing pop superstar has been topping charts and gobbling up Grammys with detailed recreations of an ever-expanding array of past musical styles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

"You could walk in the op center and see it. It was this big red blob that was just gobbling up terrain."

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

His previous feature, 2016’s love-it-or-hate-it loony toon “The Neon Demon,” was a modeling industry semi-satire that featured beauties quite literally gobbling up their ingenue competition.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

Vonetta and Fern hollered, “YAY!” and Big Ma told them to stop gobbling like wild turkeys at a Thanksgiving turkey shoot.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia


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