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The Marines budgeted about $1.5 billion for ammo and ground gear — 3½ times smaller than the allotment for revamping the Corps’ aircraft programs, which continued to gobble much of the service’s funding.
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In it, the nucleus gobbles up one of the atom's own electrons while spitting out a neutrino.
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Before DeepMind was gobbled up by Google, in 2014, as part of its A.I. shopping spree, Musk had been an investor in the company.
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Verbs Whole Foods gobbled up, The Handmaid’s Tale freed, binge-drinkers blaze, Wi-Fi flies.
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Gobbling up a mass of assets, fixing them up and auctioning the parts remains a mainstay of Blackstone’s play book.
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Magic City gobbled up a permit in 2011 and others have followed, even though jai-alai itself is a dying sport.
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The dynamic is a familiar one: Wealthier people moving to Boise from out of state are gobbling up property in pricier neighborhoods.
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Dell, Apple, Acer of Taiwan and China’s Lenovo, among others, were meanwhile gobbling its market share in the personal computer business.
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Origin and Etymology of gobble
probably irregular from 1gob
gobble
Definition of gobble
gobbled
;gobbling
play \ˈgä-b(ə-)liŋ\intransitive verb
1 : to make the natural guttural noise of a male turkey
2 : to make a sound resembling the gobble of a turkey
gobble
nounRecent Examples of gobble from the Web
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The Marines budgeted about $1.5 billion for ammo and ground gear — 3½ times smaller than the allotment for revamping the Corps’ aircraft programs, which continued to gobble much of the service’s funding.
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In it, the nucleus gobbles up one of the atom's own electrons while spitting out a neutrino.
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Before DeepMind was gobbled up by Google, in 2014, as part of its A.I. shopping spree, Musk had been an investor in the company.
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Verbs Whole Foods gobbled up, The Handmaid’s Tale freed, binge-drinkers blaze, Wi-Fi flies.
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Gobbling up a mass of assets, fixing them up and auctioning the parts remains a mainstay of Blackstone’s play book.
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Magic City gobbled up a permit in 2011 and others have followed, even though jai-alai itself is a dying sport.
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The dynamic is a familiar one: Wealthier people moving to Boise from out of state are gobbling up property in pricier neighborhoods.
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Dell, Apple, Acer of Taiwan and China’s Lenovo, among others, were meanwhile gobbling its market share in the personal computer business.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'gobble'. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Origin and Etymology of gobble
imitative
GOBBLE Defined for Kids
Definition of gobble for Students
gobbled
;gobbling
: to eat fast or greedily We gobbled up our lunch.
Definition of gobble for Students
gobbled
;gobbling
: to make the call of a turkey or a similar sound
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