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gobble

[gob-uhl] / ˈgɒb əl /


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Balds — fish lovers themselves — can consume hooks and sinkers when they gobble down their prey, potentially poisoning them, Koh said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

The sprawling, power-hungry sites, used to store critical IT infrastructure like servers, are being built worldwide by companies and countries as AI applications gobble ever greater computing power.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

Such allusions leave “Backrooms” open to charges of being derivative; Mr. Parsons is of a generation that has a tendency to gobble up content and issue reworked versions of it.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

Jackrabbits or other critters that need the water encased in the plant often gobble them up.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 2025

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

The answer, for that sample, was: mostly Desmodesmus, a green algae that gobbles up phosphorus and nitrogen.

From Slate Jun. 27, 2026

Lately, she’s making a feast of roles that all remind me of that old sitcom episode in which Lucille Ball gobbles chocolates on a conveyor belt.

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2026

Meanwhile, the consumer-electronics world faces an acute memory-chip shortage, as AI-infrastructure demand gobbles up semiconductor supplies and thus threatens to drive up the price of things like smartphones and laptops.

From MarketWatch Apr. 25, 2026

The idea is to ensure XTX can keep training its models cheaply even as the AI boom gobbles up ever more data-center capacity worldwide.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 2026

My brain gobbles up the new information around me, as if each new thing it sees will help me forget an old thing in the theater.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

I wrote a daily newsletter about energy policy at the time, and, in my efforts to be at the forefront of the news, I gobbled up those nuggets as well.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

For decades, the stocks of major global miners have essentially been a proxy bet on China’s economy, as its infrastructure and real-estate buildout gobbled up huge volumes of the iron ore that powered miners’ profits.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

It also gobbled up nearly two-thirds of U.S. venture capital last year, with San Francisco Bay Area startups such as OpenAI leading the way, according to the business information platform Crunchbase.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2026

Since the books became an international phenomenon, we’ve lined up for the resulting movies, gobbled up licensed merchandise, and bought tickets to its hit play and theme parks.

From Salon Apr. 2, 2026

Flabby Tabby gobbled them up, one after the other, like a fotobarastic particle vacuum.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

To meet those demands, Goldman is gobbling up active-ETF managers, having bought Innovator Capital Management for some $2 billion earlier this year.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Chinese car manufacturers are gobbling up European market share, especially in electric vehicles, and are rapidly expanding market share at the expense of the European automobile companies.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 2026

Tech giants are gobbling up memory chips for AI servers, leaving Apple with soaring component costs that Tim Cook says will inevitably be passed on to consumers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 2026

But he learned how to make pizza, and how much customers loved gobbling it up, while working at different gas station mini-marts around rural Nevada.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2026

Trout was in Billy’s dining room, gobbling canapes.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut




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