consume
Example Sentences
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Future rates are a concern, given the proliferation of artificial-intelligence data centers and the loads of electricity they are forecast to consume.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
Younger voters are more likely to consume political content through podcasts and social media.
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026
The thinking was that because most U.S.-born Latinos speak English and can consume a wide array of media, Spanish-language TV would recede in relevance.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026
Walker said it was not just people with vehicles being impacted because the rising prices were included in "everything that we deliver" and "everything that we consume".
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
In the supermarket they let Gogol fill the cart with items that he and Sonia, but not they, consume: individually wrapped slices of cheese, mayonnaise, tuna fish, hot dogs.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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