eats

Example Sentences

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That not only eats into your wife’s salary, it also erodes the long-term growth of your retirement savings.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

Among the world's most endangered macaques, these forest primates now survive in small, fragmented populations as human activity eats into their habitat.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang has been touting 2026 as the year that inference eats AI for a while now.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

This has led to fears that companies in logistics and financial services could be reduced to skeleton crews as AI eats their lunch too.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

“Why don’t you two show Ingrid the house. Just watch out for the hallway that eats people. And the quicksand floor. And, of course, the bathroom of doom.”

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows