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eat up

verb as in to accept

Strongest match

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However, those dense ranks of cabinets eat up gigawatts of power and LLM training produces spikes in that appetite for electricity.

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And with long-term borrowing costs reaching their highest level since 1998, it is getting increasingly expensive to service government debt, eating up what little financial buffer - about £10bn - the chancellor has.

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“For small lots in particular, the second stairway can eat up a huge amount of the building’s footprint,” he said.

But before the audience members got too deep in their feelings, at its conclusion, he offered them his best Zoolander stare and blew kisses — which they loudly ate up.

The Resolution Foundation said the U-turn would create "new complexity" in the tax system and that any savings from the policy would be eaten up by the administrative cost of means-testing the payment.

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

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