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Recent Examples of gobble
This peak in gobbling activity usually lasts one to two hours, but mating gobblers can often be called up at any time of day.
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Bruce Brady, Outdoor Life, 8 Apr. 2026
Even as the virtue-signaling Anthropic gobbled up more and more of its customers, OpenAI seemed to remain oddly resistant to paying even the slightest lip service to the greater good.
—Julia Black, Vanity Fair, 7 Apr. 2026
As the fungi extended more hyphae, the branching network pulsed and gradually expanded into a nutrient-gobbling lace.
—Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
What to read next Poplawski thinks that by gobbling up antimatter, primordial black holes could have gotten a head start on these growth processes.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Mar. 2026
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Bruce Brady, Outdoor Life, 8 Apr. 2026
Even as the virtue-signaling Anthropic gobbled up more and more of its customers, OpenAI seemed to remain oddly resistant to paying even the slightest lip service to the greater good.
—Julia Black, Vanity Fair, 7 Apr. 2026
As the fungi extended more hyphae, the branching network pulsed and gradually expanded into a nutrient-gobbling lace.
—Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
What to read next Poplawski thinks that by gobbling up antimatter, primordial black holes could have gotten a head start on these growth processes.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Mar. 2026
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Greg Dubuque’s 40 drivers are in a constant diesel-devouring loop.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
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Coors Field has made Hall of Famers feign injuries, rookies beg for mercy, and used Lorenzen for dental floss after the Phillies devoured, in order, his curve, slider, cutter, changeup and sinker.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
4 Apr. 2026
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Peppermint oil used as aromatherapy should be inhaled directly from the bottle or through a diffuser.—
T'Keyah Bazin,
Verywell Health,
9 Apr. 2026
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Once airborne, these microscopic spores are easily inhaled without people realizing it.—
Brandi D. Addison,
USA Today,
30 Mar. 2026
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With the dead and the wounded sprawled around them, the mocambos gulped the wine from the sacramental chalice.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Mar. 2026
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As studios gulped down profits, talent below and above the line began to demand adequate shares of the pie.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Gobble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gobble. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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