consumption
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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
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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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