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
In recent days, she said, she’s been surprised by the eye-popping household incomes of those trying to gobble up typical two-bedroom apartments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 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
Power plants that had been slated for closure have been pressed into longer service while new ones come online as tech giants gobble up gigawatts of capacity.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
I want to make fire! thought Tiamat, as she started to gobble the livers.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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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
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
She loves it when there’s a bug under a piece of junk—she pounces on it and gobbles it right up.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
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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
It also gobbled up nearly two-thirds of U.S. venture capital last year, with San Francisco Bay Area startups such as OpenAI leading the way, according to the business information platform Crunchbase.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 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
During his more than three decades as Simon Property Group’s chief executive, the inveterate dealmaker gobbled up competitors and defied critics, who said malls were obsolete.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
It gobbled up much of our family's together time while we all sat staring at the screen as though hypnotized, watching Henry Aldrich or The Ed Sullivan Show.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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CIOs are using dashboards that track usage, hiring outside experts for help, implementing token caps and more to reduce costs from AI agents gobbling up computing power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
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
AI firms' growing pursuit of computing capacity is driving demand for energy to power data centres, as well as gobbling up rare raw materials for many of the high-end chips required.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
He’d been burping since he started gobbling the fish.
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
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