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

There’s a lot of scraping and sponging involved.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2023

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

Aunt Loma arrived to fix our breakfast and then took over the sponging so we could eat, but we all carried our plates to the sickroom.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns