consumption
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Fabrizio advised candidates to address concerns about electricity prices, pressure on power grids and water consumption rather than offer blanket support for new construction.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
This gave researchers unusually detailed information about their diets rather than relying only on broad estimates of food consumption.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
At the national level, direct data-center water consumption is roughly 3% of what golf courses use.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
The bigger question for the oil market is how much consumption will ultimately have to adjust if Middle Eastern supplies remain constrained.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
I look like I’ve just emerged from a sanatorium and am about to lose a long battle with consumption.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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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
They give an infusion of it in colds, coughs, asthmas, and consumptions.
From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 by James Athearn Jones
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