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as in to gorge
to eat greedily or to excess
everybody tends to gormandize on Thanksgiving—it's traditional!
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as in to devour
to swallow or eat greedily
hungry soccer players who will gormandize whatever they happen to find in the fridge
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This means selling off many of the securities the Fed gorged on in a stair-step of crises over the last 18 years.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
1 Mar. 2026 -
Along with a few humpbacks, those fin whales were gorging on their favorite food: krill, a pinky-sized, shrimp-like crustacean that forms the base of the food web in the Southern Ocean.—
Brianna Randall,
Forbes.com,
25 Feb. 2026
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Partially cut plants will sag and wilt, while small seedlings can be devoured entirely.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
14 Mar. 2026
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The sun is being devoured by energy-hungry microbes, called Astrophage, and the resulting cooling threatens to wipe out much of Earth’s population.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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To run the table, Fearne would need the two-man game of Mingo and Anton Bonke to feast on smaller defenders, wing Arden Conyers to continue his late-season stride, and the hit-or-miss game of Damoni Harrison to fire on all cylinders.—
Hunter Bailey,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Mar. 2026
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The fruit his study subjects were feasting on is called African star apple.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
9 Mar. 2026
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Many people inhaled a substantial amount of smoke.—
Dave Boucher,
Freep.com,
13 Mar. 2026
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Wearing a protective mask to avoid inhaling the dust, fill a hand-crank or push rotary spreader with pelletized lime.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
11 Mar. 2026
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As studios gulped down profits, talent below and above the line began to demand adequate shares of the pie.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
12 Mar. 2026
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Easy to say, hard to do when money is tight, but these companies gulp hard and do it.—
Geoff Colvin,
Fortune,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Gormandize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gormandize. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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