gobbled

past tense of gobble
as in devoured
to swallow or eat greedily gobbled the sandwiches like they hadn't eaten for days

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Recent Examples of gobbled Because there were only seven minutes left in the game, however, the 49ers quarterback instead gobbled three bananas while trainers intensively kneaded the muscles in his arm. Matt Barrows, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025 As for socialism, the factories of the Eastern Bloc gobbled up resources, using two to three times as much steel as capitalist factories for every dollar of output produced. Matthew Mitchell, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025 Detroit gobbled its crab cakes. Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2025 This family- and crowd-friendly meal gets gobbled up at all kinds of occasions. Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2025 And consider doubling the batch, because it’s guaranteed to be gobbled up. Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2025 The data centers that fuel AI have already gobbled up all of the content on just about every website visible on the internet. Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2025 Leafy cherry trees, the fruit all gone, gobbled up by us and by the birds, and trees with ripening white and flat peaches. Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025 Across the state, corporate owners have gobbled up tens of thousands of homes and converted them to rentals and caused the makeup of neighborhoods to shift. Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 14 Aug. 2025
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  • At its heart, Stranger Things is an homage to the iconic Steven Spielberg movies and Stephen King novels that Matt and Ross Duffer devoured growing up.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Smith, the charity board member, stands in between the long blades of grass that have grown back where blazing fires devoured everything in its path just a year ago.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
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  • Previous research has found that TCE, when inhaled or ingested, can easily cross the blood-brain barrier and cause damage to neurons.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Medicines needing to be inhaled or smoked are prohibited unless in a prescribed inhaler.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 23 Sep. 2025
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  • So the 46,000 at the Stadium of Light gulped again.
    Michael Walker, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025

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“Gobbled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gobbled. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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