gobble
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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
But I think that people read that as he wants to gobble up every pie he sees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
Every year, healthcare expenses gobble up a growing portion of Social Security benefits.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
“Sinners” is the most exciting film of 2025, both for what it is and for what it proves: that fresh blockbusters still exist and people are eager to gobble them up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
I wanted to gobble up the room entire and take it to Bailey, who would help me analyze and enjoy it.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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Its fantastical elements, from the ambush on Troy led by Matt Damon’s Odysseus to a giant cyclops that gobbles his men in a cave, were created primarily with physical effects for a more visceral impact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The answer, for that sample, was: mostly Desmodesmus, a green algae that gobbles up phosphorus and nitrogen.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 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 stock has soared as it expands its nearly 3,000-location footprint, gobbles up market share, and delivers some of the most consistent performance in retail.
From Barron's ● Dec. 4, 2025
She gobbles up the last bite of cake.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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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
On the remote east side of Mono Lake, he said the animals gobbled down grass, roots and all, depriving certain birds of the worms that live in the vegetation — their sustenance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
Since the books became an international phenomenon, we’ve lined up for the resulting movies, gobbled up licensed merchandise, and bought tickets to its hit play and theme parks.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2026
She gobbled it down and chased a damselfly out the open door into the yard.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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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
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
AI firms' growing pursuit of computing capacity is driving demand for energy to power data centres, as well as gobbling up rare raw materials for many of the high-end chips required.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Grogu does a lot of it, at points gobbling a scorpion and the Star Wars version of popcorn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
I trail behind, gobbling the rest of my sandwich.
From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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