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consumption

[kuhn-suhmp-shuhn] / kənˈsʌmp ʃən /


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At the national level, direct data-center water consumption is roughly 3% of what golf courses use.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

"This is less a summit and more a spectacle. This is designed for deep public consumption," said Kurt Campbell, former US Deputy Secretary of State and now Chairman of The Asia Group.

From Barron's Sep. 17, 2026

Second quarter growth leaned “almost entirely on inventory build-up while final demand faded and private consumption slipped into contraction,” they wrote, adding that “a sharper deceleration ahead” is expected.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

Ants are not among the 10 insect species approved for human consumption in the east Asian nation.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

By shortening the intestines and decreasing their energy consumption, cooking inadvertently opened the way to the jumbo brains of Neanderthals and Sapiens.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Cutting meat consumptions — particularly red meat, particularly in high-income countries — represents an opportunity to lower methane emissions.

From Salon Sep. 17, 2024

Religious celebrations — what with sacred slaughters, a stress on all things kosher, ritualized consumptions — are a particular point of tension for Jews who eat vegan.

From Salon Aug. 31, 2021

Bullein claims "the best milk that helpeth against consumptions is woman's milk".

From BBC Apr. 20, 2016

Each individual has to pay for their own consumptions choices.

From Forbes Apr. 5, 2015

Amongst these are obstructions, distention of the body, rickets, scrophula, slow fevers, consumptions, and convulsion fits.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton




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