consume
Example Sentences
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A fusion plant powering a single gigawatt data center would consume several times the world’s current tritium inventory each year.
The researchers then examined the gut microbiota of the offspring, which had never directly consumed these emulsifiers themselves.
From Science Daily
Michael Hicks, an economics professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., said a rush to consume before tariff-related price hikes may explain much of consumers’ shopping, all the way through the third quarter.
The difference between the two is “deadweight loss”—welfare that vanishes because the person spending the money isn’t the one consuming the good.
If you spend much time online or consuming mass media, you might think that’s over—that Americans are deeply pessimistic about their country and feel powerless to change it.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
