ate

past tense of eat
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of ate On one day in late December, Eden barely ate all day. Angela Andaloro, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025 While neither is an effective big league pitcher at this point, those moves ate into the Yankees’ limited rotation depth. Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2025 Some theologians argued that Adam and Eve, as well as all the animals in the Garden of Eden, ate only plants. Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 4 Aug. 2025 Modest renovations accomplished that goal — the space pulses with history and nostalgia as old photos hint at how, decades ago, neighbors ate and drank shoulder to shoulder here. Kayleigh Ruller, Charlotte Observer, 10 Apr. 2025 In testing, 75% of users ate a greater variety of plants than before using the app. Nicki Sprinz, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025 Pigs and other animals brought to the island also ate dodo eggs. Mike Snider, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025 One study found that men who ate whole eggs immediately after resistance exercise experienced greater post-exercise muscle protein synthesis rates than men who consumed egg whites. Jillian Kubala, Rd, Health, 25 Feb. 2025 The Knicks had a good test in front of them and apparently just ate the Scantron instead of filling it out. Zach Harper, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ate
Verb
  • Movies are still big events, still consumed in long sittings, still treated as cultural monuments.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The water and food animals consumed left a chemical signature in their bones, which provided researchers with a key to their origin.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Managers heard directly how decisions had eroded loyalty.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Chinese policymakers have intensified efforts aimed at reining in excessive price cuts that have eroded corporate profits while doing little to spur demand.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Both Mahomes and Kelce have dined at other Noble 33 concepts, and Tanha eventually brought up the idea of starting a restaurant with the two.
    Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Quentin Tarantino has expressed admiration for her cinematic gifts, and Francis Ford Coppola reportedly dined with her at the first Telluride Film Festival in 1974 where both directors were honored.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Everyone Lee comes into contact with is at minimum annoyed with him most of the time, if not outright hating him.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Keanu, still annoyed from the veto ceremony, talked to Ava Pearl in the HOH room and called Rachel a liar.
    David Wysong, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Parvati Shallow has once again devoured her prey.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
  • For weeks, Oasis zealots have devoured online videos of the siblings strolling out onstage together, arms raised in victory and hugs brief yet genuine.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • One account published in 2002 by Russian official Konstantin Pulikovsky claimed that the train carried cases of Bordeaux and Beaujolais wine from Paris, and that passengers feasted on live lobster and pork barbecue.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Guests feasted on pizza, pasta, and gelato, and sipped on Aperol spritzes and Lambrusco from local winery Tomato Wheels, before leaving with a bottle of Rao's tomato sauce.
    Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • No one has bothered to figure out the degree to which that alters the scaling laws of AI models until now.
    Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The two were hardly bothered, though.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Those videos, spread across at least 13 datasets circulated by researchers and various tech firms, are more proof of how casually AI models are being fed the creative work of others – where no explicit permission was given for that to occur.
    Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Her venture has fed thousands of people over the years and received global recognition.
    Michael Rios, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Ate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ate. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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