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So you’ll find that ETFs will gobble up the more established and safe-relatively safe-crypto assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
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
These brokers, many of whom were in the Korean community, would gobble up tee times, then advertise them on social media, particularly the Korean app KakaoTalk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
It isn’t the first folding phone, but analysts expect it will gobble up the category, capturing 40% of all foldables by the end of 2027, research firm IDC estimates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
‘If any one of them is waking up, he will gobble you down before you can say knack jife,’ the BFG answered, grinning hugely.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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Micron’s profits have surged as Big Tech’s AI expansion gobbles up the supply of available memory chips.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026
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
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
Heather offers the bag to Imani, who takes it and gobbles a few herself.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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Having been gobbled up like a meal worm, Jay dredges up flashbacks of his father’s lectures in whale anatomy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
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
She gobbled it down and chased a damselfly out the open door into the yard.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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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
But now AI servers are gobbling up rapidly increasing volumes of those chips, so even a company as rich and powerful as Apple is struggling to secure supply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
But he learned how to make pizza, and how much customers loved gobbling it up, while working at different gas station mini-marts around rural Nevada.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
As I sat opposite Falconer, gobbling my bread and herring, a quarrel kindled among the dice players.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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