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consumption

[kuhn-suhmp-shuhn] / kənˈsʌmp ʃən /


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"It may be reasonable to consider moderation in the consumption of these additives and to continue studying their long-term biological effects."

From Science Daily Aug. 31, 2026

China doesn’t publish the size of its strategic oil reserves or reveal its oil consumption, forcing analysts to calculate “apparent demand” by adding up official refinery throughput and net imports of refined oil products.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

They have a wood-fired boiler to provide heating, with solar panels providing some electricity and people are billed according to consumption.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

The goal, according to legislators and advocates, is to protect consumers from growing electricity costs driven upward by the sprawling facilities and to track the centers’ immense energy and water consumption.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

“But he only raised four. Seemed like they all died before they grew up. They were all born with consumption, you know, inherited it from their mother who had it from a girl.”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Cutting meat consumptions — particularly red meat, particularly in high-income countries — represents an opportunity to lower methane emissions.

From Salon Sep. 17, 2024

Religious celebrations — what with sacred slaughters, a stress on all things kosher, ritualized consumptions — are a particular point of tension for Jews who eat vegan.

From Salon Aug. 31, 2021

Bullein claims "the best milk that helpeth against consumptions is woman's milk".

From BBC Apr. 20, 2016

Each individual has to pay for their own consumptions choices.

From Forbes Apr. 5, 2015

A scorbutic disorder, resembling the worst stage of the itch, consumptions, and fluxes, are their chief disorders.

From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by J. B. Tyrrell




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