ingestion
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"They face a variety of threats, including accidental capture in fishing gear, vessel strikes, ingestion of plastic debris, and degradation of nesting beaches and coastal habitat," said author Charles Muirhead.
From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2026
This approach, the memo said, was critical in identifying harmful substances that “pose exposure hazards via ingestion, inhalation of dust, or through garden/food production.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2026
Scientists have analysed 10,000 marine animal autopsies to understand how plastic ingestion leads to death.
From BBC • Nov. 17, 2025
Surgery for ingestion of magnets can lead to complications later in life such as bowel obstruction, abdominal hernia and chronic pain, they said.
From Barron's • Oct. 24, 2025
Flouting the rule against the ingestion of anything while inside a house, I take it, leaving an inch undrunk to avoid the awkwardness of a possible refill offer.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Ecology - Introductory
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