gobble
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Kiddos may ask to hold the toasted hazelnuts—you can always serve them on the side—but they’ll gobble up the combination of queso and Parmigiano.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
These brokers, many of whom were in the Korean community, would gobble up tee times, then advertise them on social media, particularly the Korean app KakaoTalk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 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
Every year, healthcare expenses gobble up a growing portion of Social Security benefits.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
What was happier than seeing everybody gobble down the shiny mushrooms and bamboo shoots I had helped to prepare that day?
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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Micron’s profits have surged as Big Tech’s AI expansion gobbles up the supply of available memory chips.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026
The answer, for that sample, was: mostly Desmodesmus, a green algae that gobbles up phosphorus and nitrogen.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026
The stock has soared as it expands its nearly 3,000-location footprint, gobbles up market share, and delivers some of the most consistent performance in retail.
From Barron's ● Dec. 4, 2025
Joe Six Stock gobbles up Beyond Meat, Palantir and everything AI because everyone else is buying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
There were tootles and grumbles and rumbles and sighs and gobbles and giggles and even a woof.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
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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
A never-ending stream of data about us being gobbled up by thousands of companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 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
IPO-crazed investors have gobbled up stock offerings from a data-center buyer, AI provider, chip maker, automotive-software developer and geothermal power producer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
After they’d sneaked out of the auto junkyard, Beatrice Leep had given Roy a peanut-butter cookie, which he gobbled hungrily.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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The brothers behind suburban New York tire retailer Mavis spent decades gobbling up smaller rivals culminating in their biggest deal, the acquisition of the best-known name in repairs: Midas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
For close to two decades, this crowd-pleasing pop superstar has been topping charts and gobbling up Grammys with detailed recreations of an ever-expanding array of past musical styles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
His previous feature, 2016’s love-it-or-hate-it loony toon “The Neon Demon,” was a modeling industry semi-satire that featured beauties quite literally gobbling up their ingenue competition.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 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
Turkeys seem to be manic-depressive types, gobbling with blushing wattles, spread tails, and scraping wings in amorous bravado at one moment and huddled in craven cowardice the next.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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