masticate
Example Sentences
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The open question is what we are once technology is done masticating all those memories and stories.
From Los Angeles Times
“Do you enjoy listening to people when they masticate?”
From New York Times
She spends much of her segment in extremis: absorbing a medical trauma, howling to save her life, ferally masticating arugula in some kind of furious fugue state.
From Los Angeles Times
Another masticating machine, this one a steel chipper.
From New York Times
One day it was a rich curried chicken, while nearby, the next day’s meal — a black-and-white cow tethered to a cellphone tower — placidly masticated some watermelon.
From New York Times
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