sponging

This ideology depends on the notion that immigrants are raiding the public purse by sponging on public services.

Generative AI is developing so quickly that soon the large-language models sponging up information on the internet will run out of content to feed on.

Wedging himself between Dickie and Marge, he becomes obsessed — an obsession in which the lines between befriending Dickie, sponging off Dickie and becoming Dickie are progressively erased.

There’s a lot of scraping and sponging involved.

I set it aside and go on sponging, trying not to hurt him.