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Before testing the first atom bomb, the Los Alamos crew asked Hans Bethe to confirm with math that it wouldn’t start a chain reaction and consume the atmosphere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

But the way people consume media has changed—some now wait until an entire series is released to binge it at once.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

There has been much anger in recent years about how much water some of the larger data centres consume in trying to keep the equipment cool.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

"Our work suggests that the trace amounts of sucralose-6-acetate in a single, daily sucralose-sweetened drink exceed that threshold. And that's not even accounting for the amount of sucralose-6-acetate produced as metabolites after people consume sucralose."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Gaea wanted to consume her identity, just as she’d overwhelmed Hazel’s mother.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

“Nobody consumes crude oil,” but rather the fuels that come from it, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

In the United States, that hidden water use can be twice the amount a data center consumes on its own.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

To deal with the water shortages along the Colorado River, others have suggested policies that encourage farmers to grow less hay — which consumes nearly half of the water diverted from the river.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

She consumes about 3,500 calories every day to ensure she has enough energy.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

It's a paltry amount of power, compared to what the rover consumes, but it's not nothing.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

China’s car industry has consumed market share from traditional automakers around the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Last year, Irish data centres consumed 23% of the country's electricity and the demand for energy has pushed up the price for consumers.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Among the men studied, those who consumed the most whole milk had a risk of death from prostate cancer by as much as 50% higher than those who consumed the least amount.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

One study found that people who consumed at least one serving of skim or low-fat milk each day had a 19% increased risk of prostate cancer compared with those who rarely drank it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

Hunger opened up in the boy like a chasm, in spite of the bland chicken breast he’d just consumed.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

These findings do not mean that consuming one of these ingredients will necessarily cause high blood pressure or heart disease.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

A disaster management agency official said over the weekend that 12 people had been infected with the disease after consuming dead wildlife in the Munyamadzi River area.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

“You see a lot of people consuming the minimum, what they need to get by through the week,” said owner Carina Murillo, 31, as she checked out customers on a recent weekday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

The model is only scaffolding, which, after consuming vast amounts of training data and running trillions of permutations, arrives at an outcome that can’t be known beforehand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

The noise of four hundred mouths moving, consuming, pulls me away from her.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson