consumptive

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The majority of IBM’s software follows a consumptive and instance-related pricing model, not SaaS, and we think that is a better place to be.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

On a financial level, how DeepSeek functions with fewer resources will raise unavoidable sustainability questions when other AI companies attempt to succeed using more consumptive models.

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2025

"We don't say AI is inherently good or that it is empirically better, just that when we looked at it in these instances, it was less energy consumptive," Torrance said.

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024

Dictating his life story into a reel-to-reel tape recorder, the now-aged Mann details life with Elder John, his romance with a consumptive patient and a decision he will make that irreversibly alters the local landscape.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2022

It created a cacophony of hacking coughs, bronchial rattles, asthmatic wheezes, consumptive croaks.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt