regurgitate
verb
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Something regurgitated has typically been taken in, at least partially digested, and then spit back out—either literally or figuratively. The word often appears in biological contexts (e.g., in describing how some birds feed their chicks by regurgitating incompletely digested food) or in references to ideas or information that has been acquired and restated. A student, for example, might be expected to learn information from a textbook or a teacher and then regurgitate it for a test. Regurgitate, which entered the English vocabulary in the latter half of the 16th century, is of Latin origin and traces back to the Latin word for "whirlpool," which is gurges.
Examples of regurgitate in a Sentence
Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
All of it dished up by an algorithm designed to regurgitate it right back to him.
—Oliver Darcy, CNN, 19 Mar. 2024
This prompts the flea to go on a feeding frenzy, yielding multiple bites, and a significant opportunity to regurgitate the bacteria and spread plague with each bite.
—Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
These new bots swarm websites not to catalog content but to feed that content to AI, a technology that threatens to replace search as the default means of online discovery (and does so by digesting and regurgitating the content in a monstrous, unciteable form).
—Longreads, 16 Feb. 2024
Over the course of 10 episodes, The People v. O.J. Simpson is a captivating retelling of the scandal that took the world by storm, providing intricate details and regurgitating conversations surrounding the case.
—Robert English, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2023
That’s more than just the Fox crowd regurgitating the right-wing narrative of California as the spawning ground of social evils.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
Sadie, the female, nursed the pups, and both parents regurgitated food to help their kiddos transition from Sadie’s milk to solid food.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 7 Feb. 2024
Almost immediately, bits and pieces of Guest's film were regurgitated into American films, to say nothing of the countless British knock-offs.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
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“Regurgitate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/regurgitate. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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