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as in to consume
to take in as food
claims that the average person ingests considerably more calories than is necessary or desirable
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as in to swallow
to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat
ingested the foul-tasting medicine with only the greatest difficulty
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Recent Examples of ingest
But the lawsuits allege the companies never gave anyone a chance to give consent for their voiceprints to be ingested into their AI training models.
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Hannah Meisel, CBS News, 19 May 2026
Rather than relying solely on generic large language models, Glean tailors products like its AI agents to each company, continuously ingesting data from across workplace tools, such as emails, chats, documents, and internal tickets, to create a real-time map of how work happens within that company.
—Michelle Castillo, CNBC, 19 May 2026
Additionally, borax's fine powder consistency easily sticks to the legs and bodies of cockroaches, and since roaches are heavy groomers, the chance some of the poison gets ingested is high, says Carpenter.
—Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 17 May 2026
The system ingests customer history and anticipates reorders.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 May 2026
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Hannah Meisel, CBS News, 19 May 2026
Rather than relying solely on generic large language models, Glean tailors products like its AI agents to each company, continuously ingesting data from across workplace tools, such as emails, chats, documents, and internal tickets, to create a real-time map of how work happens within that company.
—Michelle Castillo, CNBC, 19 May 2026
Additionally, borax's fine powder consistency easily sticks to the legs and bodies of cockroaches, and since roaches are heavy groomers, the chance some of the poison gets ingested is high, says Carpenter.
—Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 17 May 2026
The system ingests customer history and anticipates reorders.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ingest
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According to the lawsuit, the child consumed the kofta at The Kebab Shop on Los Feliz Boulevard on or about April 1.—
Andrea Flores,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2026
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Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24-fold increase in token consumption by 2030, reaching 120 quadrillion tokens per month, as agentic AI systems replace single-prompt interactions with multi-step tasks that consume orders of magnitude more compute per query.—
Rakesh Kumar,
Fortune,
30 May 2026
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Signs include panting, a hoarse bark, scuffing or dragging their toes along the ground, and sometimes regurgitation or swallowing problems.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2026
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Your calendar didn’t swallow your strategic work.—
Gerald J. Leonard,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2026
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Houser grinded through a pair of long innings that ate into his pitch count, throwing 37 pitches in the first inning and 27 more pitches in the third inning.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
31 May 2026
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Cats become infected by eating raw meat, birds, mice or contaminated soil, and only cats that are actively shedding parasites in their stool can spread it.—
Dr. Megan Yanny,
Boston Herald,
31 May 2026
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Michelle Yeung sips a matcha drink.—
Mike Winters
Mickey Todiwala,
CNBC,
4 June 2026
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There’s no better place to nosh on a gyro, sip some ouzo or otherwise immerse yourself in Greek culture than this weekend’s 60th annual Denver Greek Festival.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
4 June 2026
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As the two men drink their first soda for nearly a year and wistfully speak of clean clothes, another first-person view drone is heard overhead in the city of Kramatorsk, sending locals scattering.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
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This is a time when TCM has never been more popular, with practices including acupuncture, as well as cupping, herbal medicine, and other somatic therapies (or something as simple as drinking warm water) going mainstream in the Western world.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
29 May 2026
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The tension inside Chase Center was thick enough to chew.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
29 May 2026
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Why Crocodiles Perform The ‘Death Roll’ Crocodiles cannot chew food in the same way mammals do.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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“Ingest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingest. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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