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“I just think they need to be more effective at explaining the science in a way that can be swallowed up by the masses.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 24, 2026

Sometimes it feels as though, if we take one wrong step, we’ll be swallowed up by one of them.

From Salon Oct. 9, 2025

Prempeh was the Asante king, or "Asantehene", of the late 19th Century who resisted British demands that his territory be swallowed up into the expanding Gold Coast protectorate.

From BBC Nov. 26, 2024

“I just didn’t want my life to be swallowed up by my work,” the 46-year-old star of M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie “Trap” said in a Guardian interview published Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2024

“If the ocean keeps rising the island will be swallowed up by the waves and I don’t even know how to swim!”

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown




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