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
Grant said he tried to make the deal work, but ultimately determined the tax would gobble up too much of the project’s future value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 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
“The monster is just waiting to gobble us up!” shrieked Digdown.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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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
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
My brain gobbles up the new information around me, as if each new thing it sees will help me forget an old thing in the theater.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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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
As the hot sun beats down, the pickle begins to shrivel and the animals must consider how they can honor its final wish: to be gobbled up by a dog.
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
“It means we must first find a method of curing the Water Monster of the Agave Pond so that we can heal any other Holy Beings should the need arise,” First Turkey gobbled.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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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
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
They have been gobbling up market share in Europe and other parts of Asia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
To my right, from far up on a hillside, there was a loud gobbling and a beating of heavy wings.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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