consume

You mention he doesn’t consume art with the voracity you do, but I’d warn against mentioning this to him.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Across the Northern Hemisphere, farmers consume large quantities of diesel during harvest season to power tractors, combines and other machinery, while colder weather later in the year typically boosts demand for heating fuels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Constantly thinking about money and bills may consume mental resources, leaving less capacity available for other cognitive tasks.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

"She would want us to celebrate him and not let the grief consume us."

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Yet the palaces unveiled in the Rookery were so immense, so detailed, that their construction was likely to consume nearly all the remaining time, leaving little for him.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

As former Goldman Sachs commodity strategist Jeff Currie pointed out a month ago, “Nobody on planet earth consumes crude oil. Refineries do. Everyone else consumes gasoline and diesel.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

In the United States, that hidden water use can be twice the amount a data center consumes on its own.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

To deal with the water shortages along the Colorado River, others have suggested policies that encourage farmers to grow less hay — which consumes nearly half of the water diverted from the river.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

She consumes about 3,500 calories every day to ensure she has enough energy.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

To my mind, there was only one compelling argument effect? for its existence: that when a hollowgast consumes enough of us, it transforms into a different sort of creature—one that can travel through time loops.”

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

Opposition lawmaker Ezio Angelini says Venezuela produced 20,000 megawatts a day and consumed just 12,000 before longtime leader Hugo Chavez took power in 1999.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

It also preserves evidence of an ancient food web, revealing what a large dinosaur consumed shortly before the end of the dinosaur era.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

It will be able to accumulate enough water to provide 10 to 15 additional transits per day or about the same volume consumed by drinking water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

“I’d been so consumed with video treatments and merch designs, to where it was like, ‘Oh, I’m a practicing rapper.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

The second slowest cup of coffee ever consumed by man was finally empty as every eye in the Meecham living room remained fastened on the figure of Colonel Meecham.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

“You see a lot of people consuming the minimum, what they need to get by through the week,” said owner Carina Murillo, 31, as she checked out customers on a recent weekday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Analysts say the group's Chinese patronage and business ties have allowed Wa State to remain relatively insulated from the civil war consuming the rest of Myanmar since a 2021 military coup.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Result: whiffs of the paper-clip maximizer, an ancient AI thought experiment in which a computer ends up consuming all planetary resources pursuant to its instruction to make paper clips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Consuming large amounts of glucose can cause the intestine to produce more glucose-derived sorbitol, while consuming large quantities of sorbitol directly can also increase the total load.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

A cell’s metabolic identity—i.e., whether it was consuming lactose or glucose—could be ascertained not by the sequence of its genes, which was always constant, but by the amount of RNA that a gene was producing.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee