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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

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

Is it a problem if I accidentally ingest one of these guys?

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

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

From "George" by Alex Gino

The novel begins when Gelsomina ingests five parasitic worms after lapping up lake water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

All of the carbon in the trees and twigs the machine ingests ends up in the ground — not back in the air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

It ingests unclassified and publicly or commercially available data — what’s known as open-source — and writes annotated summaries.

From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2024

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

A preliminary necropsy report found the equine had ingested a common but poisonous plant that is found in the park.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Foreign objects were also discovered in their stomachs, including feathers, large rocks and flecks that appear to be paint – objects Shedd believes were ingested before they were moved to Chicago.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Yuan said she’d dealt with years of chronic health issues and believed her dad’s death last September was due to some of the contaminated water he ingested.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

This means only about 1% of the ingested drug is absorbed and able to exert its effects.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026

And people casually, unknowingly ingested all kinds of poorly preserved ill-cooked food that could make them sick or kill them.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

Prior to ingesting the water, her father had manageable hypertension and walked six miles daily, she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Armed with LLMs capable of ingesting massive quantities of data, companies can fight back and more accurately model consumer behavior and deliver personalized results.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

The court documents relating to the Anthropic case revealed the project of ingesting old books was referred to in internal company communications as "Project Panama."

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 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

We bite into them together, as if ingesting an enemy’s secret poison.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan


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