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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

Several exhibitors regurgitate the ideas of other, better-known artists.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 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

During the period fish and sharks would eat sea lilies, which are hard to digest meaning they would then "regurgitate all the chalk bits", he explained.

From BBC Jan. 28, 2025

I will need these words later, when I have to regurgitate them for exams, so I attempt to write them in my notebook, bending my head down close to the paper in order to see.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Gibson often regurgitates messages from personal finance and investing books that he reads, or from YouTube videos he watches about finance for beginners.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

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 omasum 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

The train seemed to plunge downhill now, only to lunge to a stop that shot me out upon a platform feeling like something regurgitated from the belly of a frantic whale.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

What AI does with words it devours is different from just copying and regurgitating the content verbatim, so many people consider it fair use.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Does being faithful mean regurgitating an author’s words?

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 20, 2025

They are most comfortable when regurgitating talking points and platitudes.

From Slate Jul. 16, 2024

A culture that is fed entirely by regurgitating existing ideas is a stagnant one.

From New York Times May 10, 2023

Mnemonists, the performers who amaze us by regurgitating superhuman amounts of information, have spent a lot of time building up a huge inventory of chunks in their long-term memories.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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