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consumption

[kuhn-suhmp-shuhn] / kənˈsʌmp ʃən /


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The recall follows reports that the Tractor Wheels bars can quickly form into a dense, dry and sticky mass during consumption, according to the company’s announcement on the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

The lower percentage among caffeinated coffee drinkers adds to the evidence linking coffee consumption with healthier cognitive aging.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

Tehran has sought to limit traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, which normally carries about one-fifth of global oil consumption.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026

Government spending and resilient exports likely supported growth, while elevated inflation and borrowing costs continued to constrain household consumption, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

What was on view for general consumption was Desdemona’s face: her large, sorrowful eyes, her pale, candlelit com-plexion.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

The coal consumptions have been reduced 16.7 per cent. in the last ten years and 27.9 per cent. in the last nineteen.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 by Various


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