consumption
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Protein consumption is also a priority for the Trump administration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
In an era before widespread tracking technology followed everyone’s consumption habits around the internet, Columbia House was remarkably easy to scam back.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
The US Department of Agriculture estimates that total beef consumption this year will hit 29.4 billion pounds, an uptick from 2025.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Markets will look to that for insight into how corporate finances are faring amid persistently weak domestic consumption and surging exports, a trend reinforced by July’s economic activity figures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The “backbrain” it was called—all the raw data within the Thunderhead’s memory that was not organized for human consumption.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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Cutting meat consumptions — particularly red meat, particularly in high-income countries — represents an opportunity to lower methane emissions.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2024
Religious celebrations — what with sacred slaughters, a stress on all things kosher, ritualized consumptions — are a particular point of tension for Jews who eat vegan.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2021
Bullein claims "the best milk that helpeth against consumptions is woman's milk".
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2016
Each individual has to pay for their own consumptions choices.
From Forbes ● Apr. 5, 2015
He denies nature her due in sleep, and nothing pleaseth him long, but that which pleaseth his own fantasies; they are the consuming evils, and evil consumptions that consume him alive.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
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