consume
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Cyclospora is spread when people consume foods or drink water that are contaminated with feces.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
The agriculture industry says these facilities consume farmland, electricity and water needed to raise livestock and grow crops.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Health organizations generally recommend that adults consume about 25 to 30 grams of fiber each day, yet average intake across many Western countries falls below that level.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
We consume lists of the worst airports and wonder at accounts of illness-plagued cruises.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
All around us, groups of five to ten people sit together and quietly consume just enough food to live for another day.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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By comparison, the typical U.S. adult consumes 3.6 servings of dark green vegetables and legumes and 2.6 servings of whole grains each day.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
The first chapter still consumes me with grief, anger, and inherited trauma.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
An electric furnace steel mill consumes 40 megawatts to 200 megawatts of electricity during the course of a day, with power usage rising or falling based on the flow of steel production.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Tesla has made an overt pivot toward AI, namely humanoid robots and autonomous vehicles, and that transformation now consumes investors’ attention.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
“But only if it consumes peculiars. It can eat as many normals as it likes and it will never turn into a wight. Therefore, we must have something normals lack.”
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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“Detection is really difficult, and most often the produce item being implicated has been consumed, and there is nothing left to test.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
At the protest site in the capital Delhi, he began fasting on 28 June and has consumed nothing but salt and water since then, losing more than 9kg.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Kimberly Foon took a decadeslong pause from tennis — a sport she loves — when family life and career consumed most of her time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Because people may forget foods or misjudge how much they consumed, self reported diet data can be imperfect.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
And here I was now, twenty-nine years old, sitting in the very same apartment where I'd watched all that TV and consumed all those meals dished up by the patient and selfless Marian Robinson.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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Some research has found that consuming them can lead to health problems, including irregular heartbeats and high blood pressure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Jones and Bowles were among six foreign tourists who died after consuming free drinks at the Nana Backpacker Hostel in the popular backpacking town of Vang Vieng.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
When organisms died, their remains sank and decomposed, consuming oxygen in the surrounding water.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
People contract the illness by consuming food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected person that contained the parasite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
It came untethered and crashed around with reckless abandon—burning, shattering, consuming.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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