gulp
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A.I. writing is now in my water supply, whether I can identify each new gulp or not.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Jump in and your first reaction is the cold shock response, an involuntary gulp of up to a cubic foot of air.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Runcie, a former arts columnist for the Daily Telegraph, has created something so delightfully snackable that you may, as I did, gulp it down in two or three sittings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025
The first season ended in April and dropped weekly, but waiting to gulp down episodes in a couple of sittings may be more rewarding than taking it in over a couple of months.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2025
I gave him the water and he took a large, greedy gulp.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
As we open the gate, Matt visibly gulps.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025
They took gulps of water simultaneously, as the moderators began.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2024
ChatGPT gulps roughly a 16-ounce bottle in as few as 10 queries, calculates Shaolei Ren, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Riverside, and his colleagues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2024
With bottles and glasses lined up before them, judges from several countries sampled various brands, swishing gulps of water and sometimes spitting mouthfuls into canisters, as wine tasters do.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
She pats my hand and gulps down the rest of her tea.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Everybody who preached patience in the new era gulped hard.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Trout, their speckled flanks gleaming in the sun, gulped them down one by one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
“The money question remains as to how many barrels vacated by India will be gulped up by the Chinese teapots,” Raj said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2025
When concert halls around the country shuttered their doors and gulped with anxiety about the pandemic future — this was March 2020, not that anyone has forgotten — Martha Gilmer saw an opportunity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2024
The boy gulped, then bent down and grabbed his books before running off, back to the school gates.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
Nearby, crowds huddled in thin strips of shade outside pavilions, gulping free bottles of water that workers were distributing throughout the event.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
And the Gatorade you see players gulping on the sideline during games isn’t like the stuff you grab at 7-Eleven.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2024
The sensation is extremely unnatural and unpleasant, but I prefer sleeping with that discomfort over being so tired that I have to squeeze naps into my day like a dehydrated man gulping water.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2023
There’ll be more people clogging freeways and gulping scarce water in the next drought.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2023
I was getting dizzy from the air I was gulping.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
