consumption
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The company pleaded guilty to supplying water unfit for human consumption at an earlier hearing, offering a "full and unreserved apology".
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
AI’s vast consumption of cash is beyond even the capability of private markets, however.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
Customers were then advised to boil their water before consumption for a nine-day period after supply returned.
From BBC • May 31, 2026
Some metabolite changes appeared after consumption of both the tomato-soy juice and the control tomato juice, indicating that tomatoes may produce biological effects even without high levels of lycopene.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2026
My mother says you’ll catch the consumption sitting on the ground in this weather.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
Vocabulary lists containing consumption
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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