gorge
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A colony of macaques that gorge on snacks offered by tourists in the British territory of Gibraltar swallow soil to recover from their junk food binges, a study has found.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Isak Andic, the founder of fashion chain Mango, died in late 2024 after falling more than 300 feet into a gorge while out trekking with his son in the Montserrat mountains near Barcelona.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
The ambitious action-adventure's been compared to a buffet, presenting players with a smorgasbord of ideas, gameplay styles and quests to gorge on.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026
Then there’s a gorge in between and it’s filled with all these, like, monster people that are trying to get them.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 6, 2026
Still some miles away, on the far side of the Westfold Vale, lay a green coomb, a great bay in the mountains, out of which a gorge opened in the hills.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Elisabeth, resentful, gorges on whatever fatty food she can find.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
In the same way that trees function as Earth's lungs, migrating animals—eating, pooping and dying along the way—circulate nitrogen and phosphorus from deep-sea gorges to mountain peaks and from the poles to the tropics.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2023
It’s hard to keep your eyes focused on the road as you behold a gauzy mist swirling around the mountains, veiling deep gorges, wide fjords, occasional turf-roofed dwellings and waterfalls.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
In the early 1900s, Canadian entrepreneur Thomas Aldwell saw the river and its narrow gorges as an economic opportunity.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
As he gorges on sugar, Mom picks over his treats, checking for anything that’s open or “out of the question.”
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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January tends to come with a slowdown in spending after consumers have gorged on shopping for the holidays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
Instead, the American and British public gorged on the sensationalism because that was the supposedly “official” record.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2025
They bonded further over an offseason trip to Tokyo, where they gorged on sushi and wagyu beef.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2024
Steve Smith and Travis Head gorged on some below-par bowling before the Aussie pace bowlers thundered into a shell-shocked India top order.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2023
They gorged on so many beechnuts and acorns that they sometimes fell off their perches and burst apart when they hit the ground.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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The private-equity industry, after gorging on technology investments in the wake of the pandemic, is now coming back around to bread-and-butter companies such as industrial suppliers and service providers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
After spending July gorging on the larvae of alkali flies, the birds are gradually departing this month to begin their migration to another saline lake about 6,000 miles away — Laguna Mar Chiquita in Argentina.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
And lots of fright fans don’t limit their horror entertainment to spooky season, gorging horror movies, shows and books all year long.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2024
As Evergrande was gorging on land, it sought ways to help finance its deals.
From Reuters ● Aug. 31, 2023
The days of gorging myself have paid off.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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