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regurgitate

[ri-gur-ji-tayt] / rɪˈgɜr dʒɪˌteɪt /


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It can also be passed directly to chicks when adults regurgitate food.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

Several exhibitors regurgitate the ideas of other, better-known artists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

Traditional media face threats from chatbots and Google's AI overviews, which regurgitate content without users visiting original sites, eroding traffic and revenue.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

While they hear everything, there is little they can do other than regurgitate the info online.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025

Not made freaks: not men covered head to toe in tattoos, not women who regurgitate wallets and lightbulbs on command, not moss-haired girls or men who pound stakes into their sinus cavities.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Gibson often regurgitates messages from personal finance and investing books that he reads, or from YouTube videos he watches about finance for beginners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Programming that simply regurgitates what people already see, hear, and believe in their own lives is not, by any definition, “news” or even new.

From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2026

The 1995 Korean War Veterans Memorial is centered on figurative sculptures; the 2004 World War II Memorial regurgitates classical architectural banalities — arches, pylons and wreaths — on a scale worthy of Albert Speer.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2022

The ruminant regurgitates cud from the rumen, and the food is passed into the omasum for water removal and then into the small and large intestines for nutrient and further water absorption.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

He coughs a deep cough and regurgitates something into the bag.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Jason Aten, a tech columnist at Inc. magazine, reported that his Muse read and regurgitated his private messages even though he believed he had denied it that capability.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The New York Times cut ties with a freelance book critic who admitted that an A.I. editing tool had regurgitated passages from a Guardian article into his draft.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

Watching AI-generated content, which is regurgitated again and again, fed to a zombie audience that no longer cares.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

They’re not up there playing regurgitated versions of “Medicine Bow,” “Don’t Bang The Drum” or “Fisherman’s Blues.”

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025

My mother must remember the incident on the fire escape landing, where she found me, shivering and exhausted, sitting next to that container of regurgitated ice cream.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

She argued it risked regurgitating yesterday's arguments with little prospect of success.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

What AI does with words it devours is different from just copying and regurgitating the content verbatim, so many people consider it fair use.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

With movies like “Obsession” and “Backrooms” already dominating the early-summer box office, the industry is rethinking its iron-grip commitment to regurgitating the same films audiences have seen 100 times before, in slightly different ways.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

Does being faithful mean regurgitating an author’s words?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025

I caught Tamika up to speed, regurgitating my phone conversation with Dr. Spires about the possible food allergy.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas


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