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Recent Examples of gobble
It will never be limited by some resource that another human being has already gobbled up.
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Dr. Jordan Grumet, Contributor, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2025
The conference rode shotgun while the SEC gobbled up 14 NCAA bids but made the most of its measly eight participants.
—Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2025
Also in the menagerie was a manatee named Samantha and an aggressive flock of pelicans poised to snatch fish not promptly gobbled up by the tarpon.
—Marnie Hunter, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2025
But because of the way Tony Gilroy has structured each season as a quartet of three-hour arcs, the release schedule makes sense, giving viewers a chance to gobble up each segment of the larger story in one go, rather than spreading the whole thing out over many months(*).
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2025
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Dr. Jordan Grumet, Contributor, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2025
The conference rode shotgun while the SEC gobbled up 14 NCAA bids but made the most of its measly eight participants.
—Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2025
Also in the menagerie was a manatee named Samantha and an aggressive flock of pelicans poised to snatch fish not promptly gobbled up by the tarpon.
—Marnie Hunter, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2025
But because of the way Tony Gilroy has structured each season as a quartet of three-hour arcs, the release schedule makes sense, giving viewers a chance to gobble up each segment of the larger story in one go, rather than spreading the whole thing out over many months(*).
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gobble
Verb
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However, library patrons continue to devour non-digital media.—
Katie Lauer,
Mercury News,
7 May 2025
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The dog's eagerness to devour the strawberry could be down to genetics, according to a Cambridge University study published in Cell Metabolism back in May 2016.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 May 2025
Verb
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As months and years of data arrived, Keeling’s rigorous work revealed two global phenomena: Earth’s plants inhaling CO2 each summer and exhaling it each winter, and CO2 levels’ unrelenting annual increase.—
Ashley Braun,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 May 2025
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Workers who inhaled Teflon fumes developed flu-like symptoms.—
Mariah Blake,
The Atlantic,
5 May 2025
Verb
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The main risk with giving ice cubes is choking, especially for small dogs or dogs that gulp their food.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 May 2025
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The Ratliff family is on the brink of financial ruin as Jason Isaacs’ patriarch Timothy holds out from telling his wife or children and instead gulps down Victoria’s (Parker Posey) lorazepam to dissociate from reality.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
1 Apr. 2025
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“Gobble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gobble. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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