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ingest

[in-jest] / ɪnˈdʒɛst /
VERB
swallow
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST


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Schrager said the panel had confirmed she did not intentionally use or ingest Ligandrol, and she had proved that inadvertent environmental contamination from a minute trace of Ligandrol was to blame for the positive test.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

They’d ingest all of your financial information into their software and would have checklists to make sure they got all the relevant information.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

Nanoplastics are already a concern because people may ingest them directly, but new research points to another possible danger.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

“It does not ingest my private email history, confidential HR case files, employee records or internal communications,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal May 21, 2026

Like some members of the reptile family, dwarf males can unhinge their jaws, allowing them to ingest several pounds of earth a second.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

The novel begins when Gelsomina ingests five parasitic worms after lapping up lake water.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

Both fall into the field of “generative AI,” or AI that ingests vast quantities of data and can then output nominally original media based on patterns it deciphers.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 22, 2023

If a condor ingests too much shiny stuff and the digestive blockage grows too big, it dies.

From Washington Times Oct. 13, 2023

The reaction, called alpha-gal syndrome, occurs when an infected person eats beef, pork, venison or other meat from mammals — or ingests milk, gelatin or other mammal products.

From Seattle Times Jul. 27, 2023

One ingests a horse-doctor's dose of words, but fails to acquire any illumination.

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

Even a day later, contemplating this willfully nauseating work carries much the same sensation as having ingested a plate of bad clams.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

But its usage — both in food and beverage products, along with ingested drugs — prevailed for over three decades.

From Salon Apr. 11, 2026

For decades, however, people have been worrying that small doses of glyphosate ingested over the long term can cause cancer and other health issues.

From Slate Mar. 5, 2026

Once ingested, the coating dissolves, releasing both the medication and the antenna.

From Science Daily Jan. 13, 2026

And people casually, unknowingly ingested all kinds of poorly preserved ill-cooked food that could make them sick or kill them.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

But with AI models both ingesting and creating data at breakneck speed, demand and pricing growth for data storage looks durable, Morgan Stanley argued.

From Barron's Jun. 15, 2026

By contrast, it takes ingesting thousands of salmonella particles to get sick from that bacterium.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 13, 2025

Previous work revealed that tumors use CD47 as a "don't eat me signal" to prevent certain immune cells from ingesting them.

From Science Daily Nov. 20, 2025

Neither attempts suicide by ingesting a board’s worth of chess pieces, but Freddie subsequently storms off, throwing the competition into doubt.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 17, 2025

We bite into them together, as if ingesting an enemy’s secret poison.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan




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