consumption

Example Sentences

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The rollout of electric trucks from 2H should also help moderate fuel consumption, she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

The Fed’s favored inflation measure, the personal consumption expenditure price index, will be released on Thursday, but that covers February, and so won’t capture most of the oil price rise.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

He estimates that personal consumption expenditures will be flat to down slightly at 1.9% in the first quarter.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

That level of consumption can exceed the needs of entire small cities.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

The dread of tuberculosis was in every home then, because there was not a family that had not lost one of its members to consumption, so Clara decided to go and fetch her.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende