eating away
Example Sentences
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Some 43% said higher interest rates and their impact on their ability to borrow money were the main thing eating away at their wealth.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2025
She quickly set teams to work designing new graphics cards for videogames—AMD’s chips power PlayStation and Xbox consoles, among other gaming systems—and more powerful data-center and PC chips, steadily eating away at Intel’s market share.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Dame Clare Moriarty, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said: “For those on the lowest incomes, these unavoidable costs are already eating away at their finances, leaving their budgets stretched beyond breaking point.”
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025
“Those annual diversions by Los Angeles keep eating away at the progress,” McQuilkin said, adding that allowing water levels to rise is especially important as climate change brings more intense droughts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025
Sierra felt as though it was suffocating her, a tension eating away at her very cells.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
