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consumption

[kuhn-suhmp-shuhn] / kənˈsʌmp ʃən /


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At the national level, direct data-center water consumption is roughly 3% of what golf courses use.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

The bigger question for the oil market is how much consumption will ultimately have to adjust if Middle Eastern supplies remain constrained.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

But electricity bills are only part of a backlash that has spread across the country, fueled by concerns over water consumption, pollution, noise and lucrative tax breaks offered to wealthy technology companies.

From Barron's Sep. 16, 2026

Ants are not among the 10 insect species approved for human consumption in the east Asian nation.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

As a result, overall consumption of television content actually grew.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

Cutting meat consumptions — particularly red meat, particularly in high-income countries — represents an opportunity to lower methane emissions.

From Salon Sep. 17, 2024

Because of Covid-19 and the sanctions, this trade was stopped - and his relatives had to sell for domestic consumptions for a much lower return, making it "hard to survive".

From BBC Mar. 7, 2024

Religious celebrations — what with sacred slaughters, a stress on all things kosher, ritualized consumptions — are a particular point of tension for Jews who eat vegan.

From Salon Aug. 31, 2021

Each individual has to pay for their own consumptions choices.

From Forbes Apr. 5, 2015

He has written on the smallpox, with a vehement invective against inoculation; on consumptions, the spleen, the gout, the rheumatism, the king’s evil, the dropsy, the jaundice, the stone, the diabetes, and the plague.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Samuel Johnson




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