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devour

[dih-vau-uhr, -vau-er] / dɪˈvaʊ ər, -ˈvaʊ ər /


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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

"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

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

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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