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eat up

verb as in to accept

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That would eat up nearly half the monthly income of a family whose income was $80,000 a year, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Home Ownership Affordability Monitor.

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But inside the car, I steadily fed it power as I careened into the seemingly endless Turn 3, and felt it practically eat up asphalt through a slightly winding Turn 9.

Finally, as another safeguard of financial health, we looked for companies with dividend payout ratios of no more than 60%— meaning dividend payments ate up no more than 60% of the businesses’ quarterly profits.

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Finally, as another safeguard of financial health, we looked for companies with dividend payout ratios of no more than 60%— meaning dividend payments ate up no more than 60% of the businesses’ quarterly profits.

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“The way you’re eating up all that chicken and drinking up all my wine, anybody would think it was your last meal.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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