sponge up

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.

Every time I come into the kitchen, I find a few coffee grounds to sponge up here, or a dried-up splatter of last night's red sauce to blot out there.

"Our city has lost a huge amount of capacity to sponge up all of this water."

He hung around the Cincinnati station at all hours, sponging up shot composition and camera angles.

Maintenance and repairs sponged up dollars so fast that had lawmakers not acted, no money would have been left for new construction or even to unlock federal matching grants.