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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gobbling (up)
Verb
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The complex project rolled on, the state turning over $61 million of the subsidy in May 2025 to cover dozens of pending property sales and demolitions.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026 -
Those leases were expiring, and the families could not afford to renew them, so Villanueva helped exhume the bodies, turning over the bones to a forensic pathologist who examined the remains and kept records for future use.—
Sheila Coronel,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Greg Dubuque’s 40 drivers are in a constant diesel-devouring loop.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
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Outdoor spiders are hard at work, devouring home and garden pests such as ants, flies, mosquitoes, aphids, and thrips.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
2 Apr. 2026
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Tasks that once required advanced expertise—like scanning code for vulnerabilities or running attacks that require chaining multiple exploits together—are increasingly being automated or semiautomated by AI systems.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
10 Apr. 2026
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Another process that Wen thinks the chip could improve is scanning objects for 3D printing.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Gobbling (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gobbling%20%28up%29. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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