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Recent Examples of consume With tight deadlines, high expectations, and mounting team pressure, she's consumed by concerns about strategy, workload, and customer response. Melody Wilding, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025 Stegner recognized that the freedom to protect, to restrain ourselves from consuming, was just as important as the freedom to consume. Leisl Carr Childers, The Conversation, 13 May 2025 The consistent overproduction of milk is the reason federal dietary guidelines recommend that adults consume three cups of dairy per day, as well as why half-pint milk cartons are a mainstay of the nation’s school cafeterias. HubSpot, 2 May 2025 Additionally, the study of chemical isotopes — variants of carbon and nitrogen that reflect plant or animal proteins consumed — from a bone sample taken from the mummy’s spine revealed a high-quality diet based on grain and a large proportion of meat. Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 2 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for consume
Recent Examples of Synonyms for consume
Verb
  • As the story of our cosmos moves forward, stars will slowly burn out, planets will freeze over, and black holes will devour light itself.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 15 May 2025
  • As Charlie soon learns, the alligator she’s been tasked with saving is in the process of devouring Joe.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • In their 1995 trial, jewelry sales representative Mary Ellen Mahar testified that the brothers had come to her store just four days after the killings and spent about $15,000 on three Rolex watches.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2025
  • Officials spent countless hours consulting with community members, in part, because one of the city’s busiest bus routes runs through the square.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 25 May 2025
Verb
  • The successful hatchings come about a year after Scout ate two of his chicks as a first-time dad, leaving the pair with no surviving eaglets from their first nesting season, McClatchy News previously reported.
    Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The calls came while eating lunch, while lying in bed at night.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • These clocks will, unfortunately, drain your batteries a little quicker but probably not fast enough to really take notice.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
  • They’re emotionally drained, exhausted by the mental gymnastics that have such a profound effect on their franchise’s direction.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 13 May 2025
Verb
  • However, for some, gambling is an addiction that can ruin lives and families.
    Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
  • But that stumble constitutes Hwang’s only confrontation with the hypocrisy that ruins Yellow Face and its inherent PBS conceit.
    Armond White, National Review, 21 May 2025
Verb
  • The board expects to establish authorize another buyback once the existing share repurchase is exhausted.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 23 May 2025
  • Under the proposal, an undergrad must exhaust their federal loan eligibility before parents can borrow PLUS loans to cover any remaining costs.
    Shahar Ziv, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
Verb
  • Its current office building in the area would be demolished.
    Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2025
  • Facing greater competition and sensing more opportunity, the owners decided to close the hotel at the end of May and demolish the building next year.
    Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 20 May 2025
Verb
  • Essentially, change fluency is all about an organization’s ability to spot shifts early, absorb disruptions without missing a beat, and turn uncertainty into opportunity.
    Kathleen Walch, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
  • The towel absorbs up to eight times its weight in water.
    Maggie Horton, People.com, 23 May 2025

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“Consume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consume. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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