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consume

[kuhn-soom] / kənˈsum /




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That's primarily because India depends on China to not merely consume end-products, but increasingly to produce industrial goods.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Yet this progress runs on power—and a lot of it: Data centers could consume as much as 12% of the nation’s electricity by 2028, according to the Energy Department, up from 4.4% in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Americans consume about 3.6 million barrels of that daily output.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

When coffee drinkers stopped drinking coffee, researchers observed substantial shifts in their gut metabolite profiles compared with people who did not normally consume coffee.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes; to abolish the love of nature, but not the tendency to consume transport.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

For Tock, whose rent consumes almost an entire biweekly paycheck, “the idea of homeownership is anywhere from ‘so far out’ to ‘I have given up,’” which fuels his activism as a long-term renter.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 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

Each attempt consumes expensive material, requires specialized equipment, and takes considerable human effort.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

A federal requirement that consumes a teacher’s time without improving a child’s day should have to justify itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 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

Top delegates to the Pacific talks will hold a one-day retreat on low-lying Tuvalu, a small island nation laying plans to relocate the population if it is consumed by the ocean.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Diesel is harder to refine than gasoline and so while UK refineries produce more than the quantity of petrol consumed domestically, they meet less than half of the demand for diesel.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

“It’s kind of consumed my life,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Snarky fisking — responding to an article line-by-line — gave way to the quiz boom, which was consumed by the personal essay before the long decade of short-form video.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

But my sister and Leyla were too consumed by fits of laughter to help me.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

The tone is more John Hughes than John Carpenter, as you’ll work together with a number of actors to uncover a paranormal mystery that’s consuming a suburban town.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Local communities have cited nondisclosure agreements and secrecy surrounding data-center plans as a big reason they oppose the facilities, which many blame for pushing up power prices and consuming large amounts of water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The company pointed to Matthews reacting with "extreme scepticism and disbelief" to the idea of a person solely consuming Huel.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

The regular coffee drinkers first stopped consuming coffee for two weeks.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

“I’m done waiting,” he said, the rage spilling over, consuming him, and he bolted for the doors of Blessed Way Church and shoved his way outside.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro




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