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gorge

[gawrj] / gɔrdʒ /




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Prices dropped so low—often $3 or less for a 9-ounce container—that state media trumpeted an era of “blueberry freedom,” in which even ordinary people can gorge on a once-exotic fruit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Around 60 to 70 trucks passed through the gorge each day, carrying electronics, machinery, vehicles, fruit, clothing and other goods towards Kathmandu.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

A pantheon of past winners gather to celebrate their success and gorge on a set menu specially selected by the previous year's victor.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026

The instinct to gorge on high-calorie food was hard-wired into our genes.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

It offers quiet roads along coastlines and river gorges and into mountains, among rice paddies and through towns with tiled roofs where villagers pride themselves on their Shikoku hospitality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

"The gorges are very deep and steep, so that's the difficulty."

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

Beside him, a younger woman was planning to embark on a long taxi drive with him, across steep mountain passes and narrow gorges, first to Armenia's capital, Yerevan, and then on to nearby Georgia.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 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

The Taklamakan and its buried cities gave way to the western high plateaus where the ground hardened into clay, and gorges had been cut into the rock shelves.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

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

The camaradas also found a large pile of nuts that they gorged on.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

Barely a handful of winters have passed since Patriots fans, still gorging on six titles,

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026

It’s there that the baleen filter feeders spend the summer gorging on tiny crustaceans from the muddy bottom of the Bering, Chuckchi and Beaufort seas, creating shallow pits or potholes in the process.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026

Rather, it denotes licentiousness and lack of control, the actions of a toddler gorging himself on chocolate until he is sick.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2025

So Lewis and astrostatistician Brendon Brewer instead investigated much larger, more luminous objects known as quasars—bright astrophysical beacons formed from supermassive black holes gorging on gas at the centers of distant galaxies.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 19, 2023

“Well, let’s go. Trixie’s gorging on the cookies. I’m getting nauseous.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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