gobble
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These brokers, many of whom were in the Korean community, would gobble up tee times, then advertise them on social media, particularly the Korean app KakaoTalk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
It isn’t the first folding phone, but analysts expect it will gobble up the category, capturing 40% of all foldables by the end of 2027, research firm IDC estimates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Balds — fish lovers themselves — can consume hooks and sinkers when they gobble down their prey, potentially poisoning them, Koh said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
The sprawling, power-hungry sites, used to store critical IT infrastructure like servers, are being built worldwide by companies and countries as AI applications gobble ever greater computing power.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
They’d gobble everything and then go on about my sins and the hanging.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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The answer, for that sample, was: mostly Desmodesmus, a green algae that gobbles up phosphorus and nitrogen.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026
Lately, she’s making a feast of roles that all remind me of that old sitcom episode in which Lucille Ball gobbles chocolates on a conveyor belt.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
Meanwhile, the consumer-electronics world faces an acute memory-chip shortage, as AI-infrastructure demand gobbles up semiconductor supplies and thus threatens to drive up the price of things like smartphones and laptops.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 25, 2026
The idea is to ensure XTX can keep training its models cheaply even as the AI boom gobbles up ever more data-center capacity worldwide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
He dunks the bread in the runny yolks and gobbles it down.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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I wrote a daily newsletter about energy policy at the time, and, in my efforts to be at the forefront of the news, I gobbled up those nuggets as well.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
As the hot sun beats down, the pickle begins to shrivel and the animals must consider how they can honor its final wish: to be gobbled up by a dog.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
A never-ending stream of data about us being gobbled up by thousands of companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
It also gobbled up nearly two-thirds of U.S. venture capital last year, with San Francisco Bay Area startups such as OpenAI leading the way, according to the business information platform Crunchbase.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
Paganini hopped over right away at the smell of the cilantro and gobbled it up, his back molars crunching away happily.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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For close to two decades, this crowd-pleasing pop superstar has been topping charts and gobbling up Grammys with detailed recreations of an ever-expanding array of past musical styles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
His previous feature, 2016’s love-it-or-hate-it loony toon “The Neon Demon,” was a modeling industry semi-satire that featured beauties quite literally gobbling up their ingenue competition.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
For much of its 115-year history, Benton Harbor, Mich.-based Whirlpool was the big fish of appliance makers, gobbling up rivals from Argentina to Poland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Chinese car manufacturers are gobbling up European market share, especially in electric vehicles, and are rapidly expanding market share at the expense of the European automobile companies.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
“Because we gobble up all the nasty little insects that are gobbling up all the farmer’s crops. It helps enormously, and we ourselves don’t charge a penny for our services.”
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
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