Definition of gobblenext
as in to devour
to swallow or eat greedily gobbled the sandwiches like they hadn't eaten for days

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Recent Examples of gobble And Amazon and other merchants gobbled up the ubiquitous concrete cubes dotting the region’s landscape. Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 31 July 2026 The consumer electronics business is being squeezed by a shortage of memory and storage chips, which are being gobbled up in the AI arms race. Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 30 July 2026 Though many old artists’ residences have been gobbled up by new high-rises, pockets of nostalgia persist on the streets of New York’s NoHo neighborhood. Jennifer Fernandez, Architectural Digest, 30 July 2026 Young orcas then gobbled up fish fragments that drifted through the water as their elders tore into what was left of the sunfish’s corpse. Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 23 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for gobble
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  • Videos ​will appear on Disney+ under a Verts tab designed to ⁠capture younger audiences who devour vertical video on mobile phones.
    Reuters, NBC news, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Across the fairgrounds’ sprawling 277 acres, visitors can experience livestock shows and rodeos, watch a parade and football, pick out their dream car at the Texas Auto Show, devour funnel cakes and go for a ride on the Texas Star ferris wheel.
    Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 4 Aug. 2026
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  • In March 2025 the FDA advised consumers not to inhale any flavor of nitrous oxide from canisters, tanks or chargers.
    Jesse M. Pines, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Spores can enter through a cut in the skin or be inhaled or ingested.
    RJ Mackenzie, Popular Science, 5 Aug. 2026
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  • Rather than trying to gulp the slimy thing down, Wilkinson went into the kitchen and prepared an extravagant breakfast for himself, complete with Dr Pepper to wash it down.
    Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 12 June 2026
  • Others can’t stand the sound of gulping.
    Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 8 June 2026

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“Gobble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gobble. Accessed 8 Aug. 2026.

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