gorge
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Around 60 to 70 trucks passed through the gorge each day, carrying electronics, machinery, vehicles, fruit, clothing and other goods towards Kathmandu.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
A colony of macaques that gorge on snacks offered by tourists in the British territory of Gibraltar swallow soil to recover from their junk food binges, a study has found.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Isak Andic, the founder of fashion chain Mango, died in late 2024 after falling more than 300 feet into a gorge while out trekking with his son in the Montserrat mountains near Barcelona.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
These networks will gorge themselves during the feast years, then adapt to leaner times, remaining profitable, just not explosive.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 3, 2025
If Kaz was right, Djel would spit them out into the gorge.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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It offers quiet roads along coastlines and river gorges and into mountains, among rice paddies and through towns with tiled roofs where villagers pride themselves on their Shikoku hospitality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
"The gorges are very deep and steep, so that's the difficulty."
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Wind speeds can increase further as they funnel through the valleys and gorges in the area, much like water increases its speed as it passes through a hose.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025
Elisabeth, resentful, gorges on whatever fatty food she can find.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
Narrow trails rising above deep gorges now forced the company to go in single file.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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“You think that Alex Jones gorged himself on Whataburger? You’re saying five triple cheeseburgers and how many fry boxes?”
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
January tends to come with a slowdown in spending after consumers have gorged on shopping for the holidays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
Instead, the American and British public gorged on the sensationalism because that was the supposedly “official” record.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2025
I immediately thought about the acrobatic squirrel that my Bird Buddy had captured — not infrequently — dangling from the roof of the feeder by its hind legs while it gorged itself on bird seed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
She found the remnants of a farm and gorged herself on bananas gone wild.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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It’s there that the baleen filter feeders spend the summer gorging on tiny crustaceans from the muddy bottom of the Bering, Chuckchi and Beaufort seas, creating shallow pits or potholes in the process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
The private-equity industry, after gorging on technology investments in the wake of the pandemic, is now coming back around to bread-and-butter companies such as industrial suppliers and service providers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
And lots of fright fans don’t limit their horror entertainment to spooky season, gorging horror movies, shows and books all year long.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2024
“It seems to have been really gorging itself, eating very rapidly.”
From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2023
Her lips resemble two leeches puffed up from gorging on blood.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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