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as in to consume
to take in as food
claims that the average person ingests considerably more calories than is necessary or desirable
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as in to swallow
to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat
ingested the foul-tasting medicine with only the greatest difficulty
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Recent Examples of ingest
Sometimes birds will be ingested into the jet engine and cause catastrophic engine failure.
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Anelise Chen, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2025
If ingested into the P-8’s jet engines, the flares could have caused catastrophic damage, analysts said.
—Brad Lendon, CNN, 19 Feb. 2025
Fruits also became larger, and animals like early primates would ingest them and disperse seeds, guiding the spread of plants.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
What causes cholera? Cholera is caused by ingesting a bacteria known as Vibrio cholerae.
—Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2025
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Anelise Chen, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2025
If ingested into the P-8’s jet engines, the flares could have caused catastrophic damage, analysts said.
—Brad Lendon, CNN, 19 Feb. 2025
Fruits also became larger, and animals like early primates would ingest them and disperse seeds, guiding the spread of plants.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
What causes cholera? Cholera is caused by ingesting a bacteria known as Vibrio cholerae.
—Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ingest
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One in three consumes four or more drinks per week.—
Kristen Mascia,
Parents,
4 Mar. 2025
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Data centers supporting these operations also consume vast amounts of water for cooling purposes, with each inference of 20–50 queries on a large language model using approximately 500 milliliters of water.—
Monica Sanders,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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The cost of eggs, though, is getting hard to swallow.—
David Sharos,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2025
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Yet they are also haunted by echoes from the past, especially from the world war that devastated their continent only 80 years ago, when leading European powers underestimated Adolf Hitler’s readiness to swallow up neighboring states by force of arms.—
Ned Temko,
The Christian Science Monitor,
27 Feb. 2025
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In fact, a recent survey showed that 36% of Chick-fil-A dinner customers take their meal to go from restaurants to eat at home.—
Meghan Overdeep,
Southern Living,
19 July 2017
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The casual restaurant and bar also offers an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet at 8 a.m. Sundays.—
Vickie Snow Jurkowski,
Daily Southtown,
19 July 2017
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The popular gathering space hosts near daily events ranging from exercise classes to paint and sip classes.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
1 Mar. 2025
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Beyond mixing, their higher age statements still appeal to the Scotch purist in me who just wants to sit back and sip.—
Emily Price,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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Americans — but especially Californians — drink the most tequila, which can be called tequila only if it’s grown in Mexico.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2025
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My skin drinks this stuff up, and has alleviated many of my complexion woes—think: uneven skin tone, loss of firmness, and excess oil production—with consistent use.—
Kiana Murden,
Vogue,
4 Mar. 2025
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Young dogs and puppies are especially notorious for their curiosity and tendency to chew on anything in sight.—
Russel Honoré,
Newsweek,
5 Mar. 2025
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Help your gut out by chewing your food properly, especially raw vegetables, which take a bit more effort for our bodies to digest.—
Georgia Day,
Vogue,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Ingest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingest. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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