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regurgitate

[ri-gur-ji-tayt] / rɪˈgɜr dʒɪˌteɪt /


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It isn’t enough for him to regurgitate all this bad history that’s been totally debunked, or to present this tendentious theory of the Constitution as though it’s obviously correct.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

It can also be passed directly to chicks when adults regurgitate food.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

Traditional media face threats from chatbots and Google's AI overviews, which regurgitate content without users visiting original sites, eroding traffic and revenue.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

City dwellers face a particularly nasty flooding threat from rainfall: Overwhelmed stormwater systems can regurgitate raw sewage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025

Mother looks like she is going to regurgitate last night’s dinner.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

Gibson often regurgitates messages from personal finance and investing books that he reads, or from YouTube videos he watches about finance for beginners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

In other words, Musk, who imbibes and regurgitates bad memes, has built a machine that is also designed to imbibe and regurgitate bad memes.

From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2023

The 1995 Korean War Veterans Memorial is centered on figurative sculptures; the 2004 World War II Memorial regurgitates classical architectural banalities — arches, pylons and wreaths — on a scale worthy of Albert Speer.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2022

The ruminant regurgitates cud from the rumen, and the food is passed into the omasum for water removal and then into the small and large intestines for nutrient and further water absorption.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

He coughs a deep cough and regurgitates something into the bag.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

The New York Times cut ties with a freelance book critic who admitted that an A.I. editing tool had regurgitated passages from a Guardian article into his draft.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

Watching AI-generated content, which is regurgitated again and again, fed to a zombie audience that no longer cares.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

Robinson also said the report largely regurgitated facts already in the public domain, citing the controversy of then-Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill at the funeral of Bobby Storey.

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025

They’re not up there playing regurgitated versions of “Medicine Bow,” “Don’t Bang The Drum” or “Fisherman’s Blues.”

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025

I heard a vacuum activate, sucking the indent’s regurgitated Oreos down the tube and into the floor.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

What AI does with words it devours is different from just copying and regurgitating the content verbatim, so many people consider it fair use.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

With movies like “Obsession” and “Backrooms” already dominating the early-summer box office, the industry is rethinking its iron-grip commitment to regurgitating the same films audiences have seen 100 times before, in slightly different ways.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

Does being faithful mean regurgitating an author’s words?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025

They are most comfortable when regurgitating talking points and platitudes.

From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2024

Ten minutes in the swells and sailors were bending over and regurgitating the beef stew and instant mashed potatoes of that evening’s dinner onto the ridged metal floor.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides


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