gobble (up)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gobble (up)
Verb
  • The suspect's dog had also been recovered and turned over to a humane society for care, officials said.
    Megan Forrester, ABC News, 30 June 2025
  • Staff members who have seen the vast majority of executive leaders turn over in the last 10 months.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 30 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
  • Victor’s characters were magnetically awkward, their address was intimate and direct, and their creator scanned as a pretty weirdo with a tap on the discourse and on the possibilities of the contemporary internet.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 29 June 2025
  • Researchers with the organization scanned 700 miles of Lake Michigan using sonar technology and used models to recreate the weather patterns that Flight 2501 would have encountered the night of the crash.
    Toria Sheffield, People.com, 28 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 7 Jul. 2025.

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