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The upshot is that equity wealth is increasingly available to fund spending among households with higher marginal propensities to consume.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

The original claim — that younger adults, on average, consume somewhat less alcohol than previous generations at the same age — is supported by plenty of evidence.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

The UK has set a target to consume zero-carbon electricity by 2030 and is aiming to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to combat climate change.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

“Bring Your Own Power,” or BYOP, has become a growing trend during the race to build data centers for AI, which consume unprecedented amounts of electricity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The idea was to make them want to be going out into the country at every available opportunity, and so compel them to consume transport.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Murrill told lawmakers last year that defending the state against these claims consumes an enormous amount of time and resources and that the fund should be abolished altogether.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

"Everybody consumes narratives, be it in the form of actual news, of anecdotes, of stories that people tell in neighbourhoods."

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

A PlayStation 5 consumes about one megawatt-hour of electricity per 5,000 gaming hours, CleanPlay estimates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

In normal circumstances, the world economy consumes a little over 100 million barrels of oil daily.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Leo didn’t want to bring him down, but he could still hear Gaea’s voice: He is the void that consumes all magic, the cold that consumes all Jire, the silence that consumes all speech.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Residents were ordered to evacuate two nearby villages as the flames consumed a third of the High Fens, with local officials warning the fire - which had been burning since Friday - could reach homes.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Even if cubicles were slightly more expensive to maintain or consumed more water, this would not necessarily be enough to justify a price difference compared with urinals, she added.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

Spending four formative years in a community where hundreds of services are collectively financed and individually consumed can shape assumptions about how institutions function and how resources should be allocated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

The Palisades fire consumed more than 6,500 structures, leaving 12 dead and billions of dollars in damage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Though she was allowed to visit him often, she was consumed by the guilt of living apart from him.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

He said previously the team would have to climb the trees at night to "try to visually identify a species occupying a bat roost", which was time consuming.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Altogether, the evidence challenges the idea that drinking citrus fruit juice is simply consuming sugar in a glass.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

Notably, neither scavengers nor flies that fed on the supposedly poisoned carcasses have perished -- creatures that typically succumb after consuming poisoned animals.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

Alphabet’s Google Cloud backlog has reached $240 billion, also more than doubling year over year, as existing customers are consuming cloud services more than 30% faster than their original commitments.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

Then his wrath blazed in consuming flame, but his fear rose like a vast black smoke to choke him.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien