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While Americans would not spend all of the $5,000, a reasonable assumption is they would spend over 60%, or what economists call the marginal propensity to consume.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Sorbitol-degrading Aeromonas bacterial strains can consume the sugar alcohol and convert it into a harmless bacterial byproduct.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

Across the Northern Hemisphere, farmers consume large quantities of diesel during harvest season to power tractors, combines and other machinery, while colder weather later in the year typically boosts demand for heating fuels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

But data centres also consume large amounts of water - some up to 40 million litres a day, which is equivalent to 80,000 households - to prevent their servers from overheating.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

There was nothing to do, though, when Lane extended his Martini glass to her but to accept the olive and consume it with apparent relish.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

“Nobody consumes crude oil,” but rather the fuels that come from it, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

In the United States, that hidden water use can be twice the amount a data center consumes on its own.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

To deal with the water shortages along the Colorado River, others have suggested policies that encourage farmers to grow less hay — which consumes nearly half of the water diverted from the river.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

"Usually, it takes more power to store more information. Our device, however, consumes 100 times less power and the storage capacity is higher than traditional storage devices, like flash drives."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

This is the question that consumes me over the next three days as we wait to be released from our prison of safety.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

Wild orangutans have been put under pressure in recent weeks by forest fires that have plagued the region and consumed swathes of Borneo island.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

Those analyses detected arecoline inside the dental tissues of the ancient foragers, providing strong evidence that they had consumed betel nut.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

It will be able to accumulate enough water to provide 10 to 15 additional transits per day or about the same volume consumed by drinking water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

She has a water meter, meaning suppliers charge a customer for the precise amount consumed rather than using an estimated flat rate.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

“You know you don’t need to apologize, baby,” she said, and another yawn consumed her.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

The model is only scaffolding, which, after consuming vast amounts of training data and running trillions of permutations, arrives at an outcome that can’t be known beforehand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

European countries are consuming less gas than in 2022 as they increasingly switch to renewables to generate electricity.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

Consuming large amounts of glucose can cause the intestine to produce more glucose-derived sorbitol, while consuming large quantities of sorbitol directly can also increase the total load.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

He continued later that the two discussed how industrialism “grows only by consuming, once and for all, the living world.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Then fear that he would not be able to talk about this consuming fever made him panicky.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright