sponging

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Generative AI is developing so quickly that soon the large-language models sponging up information on the internet will run out of content to feed on.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2024

He hung around the Cincinnati station at all hours, sponging up shot composition and camera angles.

From New York Times • May 18, 2022

But for a while after seeing your video, I was sponging down my milk cartons in bleach.

From Slate • Nov. 30, 2020

It was Herder who called Europe’s voracious expansionism worldwide “the grand European sponging enterprise.”

From Salon • Sep. 16, 2018

And she so appreciated Charles’s letters: “Your minute accounts are such a comfort and I enjoyed sponging our dear one with vinegar as much as you did.”

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman