gobble (up)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gobble (up)
Verb
  • The Thunder have done a great job of turning over a Pacers team that doesn’t typically give the ball away.
    Zach Harper, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • The data turned over to Homeland Security included information about residents of California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington, D.C.
    Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 18 June 2025
Verb
  • Finance and accounting present yet another strong case for BPO, as companies can outsource tax compliance, accounts receivable and other back-office functions that can devour time and resources.
    Pranav Dalal, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • Even its Revolutionary Guards bear no name of Iran—only of a violent ideology that devours its children and invites war upon them.
    Nazanin Boniadi, Time, 17 June 2025
Verb
  • The business scans for games, too, helping to create accurate, photo-realistic avatars of, for example, your favorite athletes.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025
  • Sophisticated algorithms can scan entire genomes, mapping how thousands of tiny genetic variations interact.
    Siddhartha Mukherjee, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
Verb
  • This gives parent the ability to create what can be considered a safe environment for their children to browse the web, and this is accomplished by the use of content filtering.
    Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • The whole process, Mill argued, would move voting away from a referendum on a community’s values and toward an act of whimsy, like browsing from an array of calico clothes.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 23 June 2025
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“Gobble (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gobble%20%28up%29. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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