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ingest

verb as in swallow

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It’s the junk their brains are ingesting—or the essential nutrients they aren’t taking in.

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All of the carbon in the trees and twigs the machine ingests ends up in the ground — not back in the air.

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In theory this means that once rat poison is ingested, they can't get rid of it.

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Based on the amount of fruit they normally eat, the chimps were ingesting around 14 grams of ethanol - equivalent to nearly two UK units, or roughly one 330ml bottle of lager.

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Mudryk's legal team and those in his tight-knit circle insist he did not knowingly ingest any banned substance, and multiple sources claim he has passed an unverified lie detector test attesting to that.

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