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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

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

While it can strengthen the competitiveness of Japanese exporters, "the downside -- declining purchasing power weighing on consumption and investment -- is not sufficiently understood", warned Nakao.

From Barron's 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

Normally, I would have considered this unfit for consumption, but we reached in with our unwashed hands and ate as though we had been provided with the most delicious delicacies under the sun.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

From Salon Sep. 17, 2024

Because of Covid-19 and the sanctions, this trade was stopped - and his relatives had to sell for domestic consumptions for a much lower return, making it "hard to survive".

From BBC Mar. 7, 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

Each individual has to pay for their own consumptions choices.

From Forbes Apr. 5, 2015

I am inclined to think that consumptions, so common in England, are, in part, owing to the great use of animal food.

From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott




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