consume
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Before testing the first atom bomb, the Los Alamos crew asked Hans Bethe to confirm with math that it wouldn’t start a chain reaction and consume the atmosphere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
These gas-rich environments trap radiation and allow the black holes to consume material much more efficiently than black holes can in the modern Universe.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
But the way people consume media has changed—some now wait until an entire series is released to binge it at once.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The official urged the public not to consume meat from animals that die naturally or from unknown causes, while urging the public to report any such cases.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
The Chiclets were his to hold before the doctor saw him, and to consume after.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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“Nobody consumes crude oil,” but rather the fuels that come from it, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
In the United States, that hidden water use can be twice the amount a data center consumes on its own.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
To deal with the water shortages along the Colorado River, others have suggested policies that encourage farmers to grow less hay — which consumes nearly half of the water diverted from the river.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
She consumes about 3,500 calories every day to ensure she has enough energy.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
“They say black absorbs all color. It blots and consumes it and gives us nothing back. That’s wrong, don’t you think?”
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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Researchers also analyzed 17 of the preservatives most commonly consumed by participants.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
China’s car industry has consumed market share from traditional automakers around the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The maneuver was completed with more than 99% accuracy and consumed less than 10% of the fuel reserved for it.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
Last year, Irish data centres consumed 23% of the country's electricity and the demand for energy has pushed up the price for consumers.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
His sight begins to shift continuously from shadow to light, darkness replaced by expansive white only to be consumed by darkness again.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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These findings do not mean that consuming one of these ingredients will necessarily cause high blood pressure or heart disease.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Another large-scale outbreak was reported in 2011, with more than 500 cases, when five people died after consuming meat from infected hippos.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
“You see a lot of people consuming the minimum, what they need to get by through the week,” said owner Carina Murillo, 31, as she checked out customers on a recent weekday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The model is only scaffolding, which, after consuming vast amounts of training data and running trillions of permutations, arrives at an outcome that can’t be known beforehand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
But despite this apparent munificence, the meat he’d been killing was very lean, and he was consuming fewer calories than he was burning.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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