eat away
Example Sentences
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“The Complex” works instead by painstaking accretion—or rather, by erosion, recording in granular detail all the lies and violations that eat away at the Chopras’ respectable facade.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
Recent trading action notwithstanding, software shares have been battered this year over fears that artificial intelligence will eat away at traditional business models.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026
Investors are assessing whether AI could eat away at the broker industry’s lucrative advisory fees and commissions while virtually eliminating niche businesses such as appraisal.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
Fuel cells could eventually eat away at natural gas turbine sales.
From Barron's • Dec. 16, 2025
My skin is crawling, like I can feel the B. cepacia looking for a way to slip inside and eat away at me.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
