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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

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

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

From Slate Jun. 11, 2026

Like some members of the reptile family, dwarf males can unhinge their jaws, allowing them to ingest several pounds of earth a second.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

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

If a condor ingests too much shiny stuff and the digestive blockage grows too big, it dies.

From Washington Times Oct. 13, 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

The level of exposure and the associated risk is dependent on how much erythritol one ingests.

From Salon Mar. 13, 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

The coastguard said dogs could be attracted to the smell and might try to eat it - and if it was ingested it could cause a fatal reaction.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

I’ve ingested a lot of Funkadelic, a lot of Prince, a lot of the Gap Band.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

“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

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

I have looked through my father’s World War II scrapbook many times; I have seen Vietnam on television; I have ingested countless movies about Ancient Rome or the battles of the Middle Ages.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

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

France is mulling how to prevent people from ingesting too much of the heavy metal cadmium, after a warning their breakfast cereal and baguettes could be contaminated with the toxin.

From Barron's May 13, 2026

“Is it, though? Is it attached to a root system? Is it ingesting nutrients? Water? Those are all signs of life.”

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm




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