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ingest

[in-jest] / ɪnˈdʒɛst /
VERB
swallow
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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

We inhale and ingest them from almost everything we touch, breathe, eat and drink.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Nanoplastics are already a concern because people may ingest them directly, but new research points to another possible danger.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

If you ingest too much swainsonine you are bound to starve, no matter how much food you put into your stomach.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

She declares herself a powerful deity and explains that God is essentially a “tube” that constantly ingests and secretes experiences and things.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 7, 2025

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

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 Washington 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

“We’ve probably ingested more third-party qualitative analysis in the last six weeks than we have in our entire history, combined,” Lambert said.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 22, 2026

But its usage — both in food and beverage products, along with ingested drugs — prevailed for over three decades.

From Salon Apr. 11, 2026

For decades, however, people have been worrying that small doses of glyphosate ingested over the long term can cause cancer and other health issues.

From Slate Mar. 5, 2026

Once ingested, the coating dissolves, releasing both the medication and the antenna.

From Science Daily Jan. 13, 2026

Had he somehow accidentally ingested knowledge last night at the hotel?

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

Last month it was reported a dog died after ingesting algae at Coniston Water.

From BBC Aug. 12, 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

Research into microplastics, and even smaller nanoplastics, has sparked widespread concern about how everything from food packaging to microbeads in cosmetics is shedding tiny bits of material that we could be ingesting.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 18, 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

More plausibly, he told of feeding his initial sample by eyedropper to a mouse, which showed no ill effects after ingesting what was then “the world supply” of heavy water.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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