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ingest

[in-jest] / ɪnˈdʒɛst /
VERB
swallow
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST


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It found that balloons were 32 times more likely to result in death than when birds ingest hard plastic.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

They’d ingest all of your financial information into their software and would have checklists to make sure they got all the relevant information.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

And you can ingest the parasite and not feel the impact of it for weeks.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

This is the dark matter of nutrition – the compounds we ingest daily but haven’t been mapped or studied.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026

“The time after you ingest your midday nourishment will be entirely devoted to theatrical pursuits.”

From "George" by Alex Gino

Everlab’s platform ingests and organizes documents and data from doctors, specialists and pathologists, compiling patient records that it augments with real-time data from users’ existing wearable devices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Both fall into the field of “generative AI,” or AI that ingests vast quantities of data and can then output nominally original media based on patterns it deciphers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

Frightful extras: The included Blu-ray version of the film ingests all of the digital goodies from the high definition release back in 2009.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

The reaction, called alpha-gal syndrome, occurs when an infected person eats beef, pork, venison or other meat from mammals — or ingests milk, gelatin or other mammal products.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

One ingests a horse-doctor's dose of words, but fails to acquire any illumination.

From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

She’s ingested so much AI-generated content that it’s now coming out of her mouth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

But fallen ash still poses major health risks if ingested or inhaled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

In the environment, microplastics can be ingested by fish and other wildlife, potentially moving up the food chain and eventually reaching humans.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 18, 2026

"However, the container which fell was left behind and it got ingested into the No. 2 engine of the aircraft," Air India added.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026

Bobby read every issue cover to cover, though, and much of what he ingested made sense to him.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Much depends on what’s raising your body temperature in the first place — if you have a fever due to an infection, for example, see a doctor rather than ingesting peppermint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

It’s a position that has put Palantir at odds with leading AI labs, whom Karp has characterized as looking to “colonize” their customers by ingesting their business intelligence and proprietary data.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

"Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that would produce a high-quality product," he said.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

It is also "very likely" that we are regularly ingesting microplastics from air and food, Imperial College London researcher Leon Barron told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

The workers, who marked watch dials with luminous radium paint, customarily licked their brushes to a fine point, ingesting the radioactive substance.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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