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consumption

[kuhn-suhmp-shuhn] / kənˈsʌmp ʃən /


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The blood samples also revealed smaller changes associated with fish and caffeine consumption.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Chinese state media have hailed this “sweet economy” as a new engine for consumption.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

This week will bring the September jobs report and data on personal consumption, manufacturing, and home prices.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Investors have also likely been drawn to artificial intelligence, which has proved a catalyst for the sector that suffered a decadeslong trough amid stagnation in U.S. electricity consumption.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

“Nollywood is really public theater, and if you understand it like that, then it is more tolerable. It’s for public consumption, even mass participation, not the kind of individual experience that film is.”

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Neither was the body then subject to distempers, to die by piecemeal, and languish under coughs, catarrhs, or consumptions.

From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South by Grenville Kleiser




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