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gobbling (up)

verb

present participle of gobble (up)

as in dipping (into)

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Kushner said the utility had cooperated with the investigation, turning over data and making PG&E staff available for interviews.

— Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
La Roja then lacks quality and intent, opting instead for little flicks around corners that result in turning over possession.

— Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 10 July 2026

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Many of them, like Tubbs, were refugee Midwesterners, sick of parching droughts and devouring plagues of locusts, the insects descending in buzzing clouds thick enough to blacken the noonday sun.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
Their supporters with zero life experience are devouring their pie-in-the-sky mumbo jumbo.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026

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While scanning the roadside along I-80 offers a quick, anecdotal glimpse of the winter ahead, local districts maintain contact with Reclamation to track how much runoff will actually make its way to Folsom Lake.

— Corey Schmidt July 10, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026
Defender normally places hard limits on how big a file can be written to disk when scanning and quarantining a machine.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 9 July 2026

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