devour
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I still devour new music this way, clocking a daily average of four hours of tunes familiar and novel.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
For him and his family, this is a rare chance to devour durians "of good quality, and sometimes at nearly half the price of previous seasons".
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
A data center for AI training can devour as much electricity as 1,000 Walmart stores, while an AI search can use 10 times the amount of energy as a google search.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
The company has seen the Gen Z audiences devour hits of yesteryear such as “How I Met Your Mother,” “Modern Family” and “Golden Girls.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
The forest that had seemed to devour its walls stood at a respectful distance.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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"If you don't run from it and you try to face it, it devours you," Ecologio Cabrera, 86, told AFP after fleeing with nothing.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
He doesn’t watch television or movies but he devours business podcasts and personal stories of entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026
That hot, hard rock devours conventional drill bits and makes a hash of the concrete usually poured deep underground around the steel pipes required to line such a well and keep it from collapsing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
In the show, rare glimpses of his inner turmoil come when he devours a lemon tart or a chocolate bar with a pleasureless intensity.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Not the flickery stuff I wore last year in the chariot, but something much more real that devours my dress.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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Now, countless memories rushed back to her as she devoured clips of the fully redesigned version, due to arrive on the Switch 2 later this year.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
"I devoured all of these facts so now at any party, I have at least five Milton Keynes facts."
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
These AI companies are stocked with “rationalists” and “effective altruism” folks who devoured neo-Luddite Eliezer Yudkowsky’s 2025 book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Such heat contributed to ideal conditions for wildfires that devoured swathes of land across the continent.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
I devoured my cheeseburger and fries even faster than Andre, who is known for inhaling his food.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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The candidates are bears in Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, who are currently busy devouring as many calories as possible to fatten up for winter hibernation.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
Scavenger animals such as possums, red foxes and crows can be exposed to the virus while devouring the carcasses of infected birds.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
The beds and food bowls are gone; the floor where they always left messes after devouring the grub I made them is eerily clean.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
A contractor in Steamboat Springs, Colo., opened his truck door in June to find a bear cub devouring his lunch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The torrid cracks of the furnace gleamed in the crimson darkness and he heard the throaty undertone of the draft devouring the air.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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