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as in gorges
to eat greedily or to excess
everybody tends to gormandize on Thanksgiving—it's traditional!
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as in devours
to swallow or eat greedily
hungry soccer players who will gormandize whatever they happen to find in the fridge
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But in Washington, politics devours everything, even the sacred.—
Tara Palmeri,
Vanity Fair,
12 Jan. 2026 -
Gratitude requires perspective, but perpetual outrage devours perspective.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Nov. 2025
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Well, Sydney feasts a little bit at the end.—
Claire Messud,
Vogue,
8 Jan. 2026
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What's more, while virtually all VTOLs being developed these days are electric, the Janus-1 is powered by a turboshaft engine that gulps n' burns diesel, kerosene or Jet A fuel.—
Ben Coxworth
October 21,
New Atlas,
21 Oct. 2025
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The mysterious Egg scoffs at Dunk’s rope belt but offers to be his squire.—
Sarah Larson,
New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2026
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Fourie scoffs at the concern about African greys disappearing in the wild.—
Rene Ebersole,
Rolling Stone,
18 Nov. 2025
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“Gormandizes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gormandizes. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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