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

Wedging himself between Dickie and Marge, he becomes obsessed — an obsession in which the lines between befriending Dickie, sponging off Dickie and becoming Dickie are progressively erased.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2024

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 the wild anxiety in the morning to hide all traces from the world, sponging with cold water, dabbing eau-de-Cologne, the furtive dash of powder that is significant in itself.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier