consumptive

Example Sentences

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The majority of IBM’s software follows a consumptive and instance-related pricing model, not SaaS, and we think that is a better place to be.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

"We don't say AI is inherently good or that it is empirically better, just that when we looked at it in these instances, it was less energy consumptive," Torrance said.

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024

By planting local plants, you can also support native pollinators, finding that spark or connection to nature in a less vain and consumptive manner.

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2023

Dictating his life story into a reel-to-reel tape recorder, the now-aged Mann details life with Elder John, his romance with a consumptive patient and a decision he will make that irreversibly alters the local landscape.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2022

I think the soaked concrete of the borough must smell a little of Venice, or what I imagine of Venice, a redolence consumptive, intestinal.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee