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Recent Examples of gobble
My club kept cutting through the kikuyu grass but completely missing the ball, the impossibly thick rough gobbling up more and more of it with each attempt.
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Gabby Herzig, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Acorns generally are not a good choice for humans to eat raw, although deer will gobble them up.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Players race to gobble up the most pepperoni marbles in each chaotic round.
—Clint Davis, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
Figure skaters with cats on their heads, dog astronauts gobbling tennis balls, unusually agile horseback riders standing astride multiple animals — these were some of the snippets seen in its short video presentation.
—Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
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Gabby Herzig, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Acorns generally are not a good choice for humans to eat raw, although deer will gobble them up.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Players race to gobble up the most pepperoni marbles in each chaotic round.
—Clint Davis, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
Figure skaters with cats on their heads, dog astronauts gobbling tennis balls, unusually agile horseback riders standing astride multiple animals — these were some of the snippets seen in its short video presentation.
—Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gobble
Verb
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Maybe just don’t devour the donut in front of your Spidey D Plush.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 Oct. 2025
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Earning rave review, this Advent calendar is praised for being well-made, with each treat packaged individually to avoid them falling from one special day to the next, or your pup sneaking into the calendar to devour all the treats at once.—
Christine Persaud,
USA Today,
16 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Its use was banned in many countries around the turn of the millennium amid concerns that the fibers, when airborne, could result in potentially fatal lung diseases if inhaled.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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Miners argue increased subjection to the dust has led to an eruption of black lung, an incurable disease associated with inhaling the particles.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
14 Oct. 2025
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Perhaps a whale or a shark would arrive to gulp down the passengers, one by one.—
Catherine Lacey,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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Both bands specialize in grooves that feel bulbous and fetid: kick drums gulping with fear, flickering guitars evoking lantern light.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Gobble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gobble. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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