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gobbled (up)

verb

past tense of gobble (up)

as in turned over

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The group said the man’s daughter provided documents confirming his death, which have been turned over to the district attorney.

— Lekan Oyekanmi, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
The digital records of Masterson’s emails that WSU turned over were heavily redacted.

— Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2026

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Early Sunday morning, near the Place de la République, a part-time crossing guard named Joëlle, 71, scanned the wreckage along the Boulevard Voltaire from a bench, holding her shaggy shepherd mix, Pollux, on a leash.

— Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
Yet before the crows could be digitally designed, they were sculpted, and the character department built different parts of the crow — feathers, beaks, eyes and feet — to be scanned.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

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