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regurgitate

[ri-gur-ji-teyt] / rɪˈgɜr dʒɪˌteɪt /


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It isn’t enough for him to regurgitate all this bad history that’s been totally debunked, or to present this tendentious theory of the Constitution as though it’s obviously correct.

From Slate Jul. 7, 2026

Too much of modern life is dominated by machines that can only regurgitate what has come before, says Bienvenu.

From Barron's Mar. 5, 2026

City dwellers face a particularly nasty flooding threat from rainfall: Overwhelmed stormwater systems can regurgitate raw sewage.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 10, 2025

While they hear everything, there is little they can do other than regurgitate the info online.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 10, 2025

Not made freaks: not men covered head to toe in tattoos, not women who regurgitate wallets and lightbulbs on command, not moss-haired girls or men who pound stakes into their sinus cavities.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

In other words, Musk, who imbibes and regurgitates bad memes, has built a machine that is also designed to imbibe and regurgitate bad memes.

From Slate Nov. 7, 2023

The 1995 Korean War Veterans Memorial is centered on figurative sculptures; the 2004 World War II Memorial regurgitates classical architectural banalities — arches, pylons and wreaths — on a scale worthy of Albert Speer.

From Washington Post Nov. 16, 2022

The ruminant regurgitates cud from the rumen, and the food is passed into the abomasum for water removal and then into the small and large intestines for nutrient and further water absorption.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

The movie is just a big, empty declaration of corporate dominance, a whirling CGI tornado that — like a much stupider Tasmanian Devil — ingests, barely processes and then promptly regurgitates everything in its path.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2021

He coughs a deep cough and regurgitates something into the bag.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

The New York Times cut ties with a freelance book critic who admitted that an A.I. editing tool had regurgitated passages from a Guardian article into his draft.

From Slate Apr. 17, 2026

Watching AI-generated content, which is regurgitated again and again, fed to a zombie audience that no longer cares.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 23, 2026

If “Christy” is Sweeney’s message through art, it may as well be the cinematic equivalent of “Dogs Playing Poker,” an image so often remixed and regurgitated that it’s devoid of any compelling meaning.

From Salon Nov. 8, 2025

Her gray cloth backseat was covered with dog hair and a few remaining telltale stains of the regurgitated chocolate milk of a carsick toddler.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 15, 2024

A tsunami of regurgitated rations flooded over Grub’s blackout suit.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

With movies like “Obsession” and “Backrooms” already dominating the early-summer box office, the industry is rethinking its iron-grip commitment to regurgitating the same films audiences have seen 100 times before, in slightly different ways.

From Salon Jun. 10, 2026

Does being faithful mean regurgitating an author’s words?

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 20, 2025

OpenAI said that the New York Times’ lawsuit was without merit and that it has been unable to reproduce examples the newspaper has cited of ChatGPT regurgitating paywalled articles.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2024

OpenAI’s generative language tool ChatGPT has proven to be effective at regurgitating hackneyed cultural motifs back at its users, which makes it perfect for the platitudinal terrain of BuzzFeed quizzes.

From Slate Apr. 12, 2023

“The only thing more wasteful is Big Head over there, regurgitating the PJs.”

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore




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