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as in devours
to destroy all trace of
massive fires had consumed hundreds of square miles of forest
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as in spends
to make complete use of
the mining company consumed all of the local mineral resources and then moved on
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as in eats
to take in as food
hungry enough to consume most of the pie
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Recent Examples of consumes
Demand for memory chips has also been surging as the AI data center buildout consumes much of the high-bandwidth memory on the market.
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Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
An average American man consumes about 100 grams of protein per day.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
Journalism is a great way to do it, but sometimes fictional storytelling is a more effective way of highlighting issues in the world, especially right now, where people are so polarized that everyone only consumes their own news sources that affirm their preexisting biases.
—Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 6 Jan. 2026
Prune the blossom before seed development, as seed production consumes energy that could otherwise be used for more flowers.
—Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 31 Dec. 2025
And in Point2’s case, the system consumes one-third of optical’s power, costs one-third as much, and offers as little as one-thousandth the latency.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2025
Much of that trauma stems from a tapeworm egg that Elvira consumes to lose weight at the beginning of her transformation.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 23 Dec. 2025
At the same time, demand is increasing due to growing urban populations and a thirsty agricultural sector, which consumes more than 80% of Iraq’s water resources.
—Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Money, 21 Dec. 2025
However, each conversion step consumes energy, introduces delay, and loses some of the information carried by the original signal.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
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Megan, who devours at least one hockey romance a week (and asked to be identified by only her first name), says that a series Bowen co-wrote with Elle Kennedy was her gateway into the genre.—
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Gratitude requires perspective, but perpetual outrage devours perspective.—
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The Cowboys have mastered the art of entertaining and interesting better than any sports franchise in the world, but there is a redundancy that to the person who spends a lot of their money on it is justifiably checked out.—
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Browns Cleveland boasts an elite defense led by the league’s best pass rusher, an owner who spends more cash than any other team and a promising nucleus from the 2025 draft class.—
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Now, any creature that eats rats is a friend of mine.—
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This season, the third-year Miami Heat swingman is making sure that everyone eats.—
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Cold weather drains batteries quickly.—
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The great Amazon in its north drains large areas as does the Parana-River Plate watershed to its south that reaches the Atlantic in the estuary between Argentina and Uruguay, The San Francisco flows north for hundreds of miles before hooking a right and dropping to the Atlantic.—
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If the city demolishes the building, the costs will be assessed to the property owner.—
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The denial exhausts the city’s legal options for the 2022 ballot measure, known as Measure C.—
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Ella has shades of Holly Hunter's intense, workaholic producer Jane from Brooks' 1987 masterpiece Broadcast News, the smartest person in any room who both exhausts and enchants everyone around her.—
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The degenerative and incurable disease, which also is known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, depletes and destroys the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, eventually causing paralysis.—
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Literally paying their tax bills is going to drain corporate bank accounts, which further depletes bank reserves from the system.—
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Unlike glossy black, this effect absorbs light in a subtle way, creating a richer, more modern visual texture.—
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And although lightweight, the shoe doesn’t compromise on support — it’s designed with a memory foam sole that absorbs impact and provides an extra layer of padding.—
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“Consumes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consumes. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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