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ingest

[in-jest] / ɪnˈdʒɛst /
VERB
swallow
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST


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Schrager said the panel had confirmed she did not intentionally use or ingest Ligandrol, and she had proved that inadvertent environmental contamination from a minute trace of Ligandrol was to blame for the positive test.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

They’d ingest all of your financial information into their software and would have checklists to make sure they got all the relevant information.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

We inhale and ingest them from almost everything we touch, breathe, eat and drink.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Is it a problem if I accidentally ingest one of these guys?

From Slate Jun. 11, 2026

“The time after you ingest your midday nourishment will be entirely devoted to theatrical pursuits.”

From "George" by Alex Gino

Everlab’s platform ingests and organizes documents and data from doctors, specialists and pathologists, compiling patient records that it augments with real-time data from users’ existing wearable devices.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

Both fall into the field of “generative AI,” or AI that ingests vast quantities of data and can then output nominally original media based on patterns it deciphers.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 22, 2023

Frightful extras: The included Blu-ray version of the film ingests all of the digital goodies from the high definition release back in 2009.

From Washington Times Oct. 26, 2023

But there are other risk factors for TCE exposure, which occurs when a person breathes, ingests or touches the chemical.

From Seattle Times May 6, 2023

One ingests a horse-doctor's dose of words, but fails to acquire any illumination.

From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

But fallen ash still poses major health risks if ingested or inhaled.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Even a day later, contemplating this willfully nauseating work carries much the same sensation as having ingested a plate of bad clams.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

But its usage — both in food and beverage products, along with ingested drugs — prevailed for over three decades.

From Salon Apr. 11, 2026

Once ingested, the coating dissolves, releasing both the medication and the antenna.

From Science Daily Jan. 13, 2026

And people casually, unknowingly ingested all kinds of poorly preserved ill-cooked food that could make them sick or kill them.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

The court documents relating to the Anthropic case revealed the project of ingesting old books was referred to in internal company communications as "Project Panama."

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Much depends on what’s raising your body temperature in the first place — if you have a fever due to an infection, for example, see a doctor rather than ingesting peppermint.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

It’s a position that has put Palantir at odds with leading AI labs, whom Karp has characterized as looking to “colonize” their customers by ingesting their business intelligence and proprietary data.

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 2026

But with AI models both ingesting and creating data at breakneck speed, demand and pricing growth for data storage looks durable, Morgan Stanley argued.

From Barron's Jun. 15, 2026

More plausibly, he told of feeding his initial sample by eyedropper to a mouse, which showed no ill effects after ingesting what was then “the world supply” of heavy water.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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