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gobble (up)

verb

Definition of gobble (up)

as in to turn over

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Those injuries happened when a fire engine turned over on Tuesday, the agency said.

— Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 24 July 2026
In response to a public records request from The Times for Bass’ texts in the aftermath of the January 2025 Palisades fire, her office initially declined to turn over any messages.

— Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026

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That's because the mechanisms by which black holes devour matter to grow and then merge to create even more massive black holes should take at least 1 billion years to achieve supermassive status.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 July 2026
Is there another dish that consumers routinely devour despite scientific research showing each serving takes about 36 minutes off your life, at least according to the University of Michigan?

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026

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That’s what startup Casana is betting will be the next billion-dollar opportunity with its smart toilet seats, which have sensors that can scan vitals like blood pressure, heart rate and blood oxygen, and then connect the results to a phone app.

— Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
And for all the whinging about the cast’s racial diversity, the actor who in some ways reads least as an ancient Greek is Matt Damon, whose Odysseus scans as American, which is almost certainly the point.

— Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 21 July 2026

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