Thesaurus results for INGESTING

ingesting

verb

present participle of ingest

as in consuming

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 swallowing

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 ingesting Detectives determined the victim died from ingesting a fatal dose of fentanyl, according to police. —

Doug Myers, CBS News, 17 June 2026 So basically, ingesting it (rather than relying on collagen-boosting skin creams) is going to give you superior results. —

Rita Templeton, Flow Space, 15 June 2026 State police said their investigation was launched on March 12, 2025, when a 4-year-old girl was treated at a hospital after ingesting an unknown amount of cannabis. —

Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2026 Bill O'Reilly, head of innovation at the reinsurer Greenlight Re, said his firm had aimed AI at ingesting submissions to speed up the review rather than at choosing what to insure, according to a recap by the trade title IA Magazine. —

Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026 Prometheus is instead ingesting information from the physical world to accelerate the manufacturing of everything from skyscrapers to smartphones to jet engines. —

Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 11 June 2026 Symptoms of salmonella poisoning Symptoms of salmonella poisoning usually start six hours to six days after ingesting the bacteria. —

Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 2 June 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 Dogs experience mild stomach upset on ingesting lilies that are particularly toxic to cats—such as true lilies (Lilium species) and daylilies (Hemerocallis species)—though experts are unsure why. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 May 2026

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Treat Infestations Sprinkling a mix of equal parts borax and sugar can help get rid of bugs like ants and roaches (they’ll be attracted to the sugar and die after consuming the borax).

— Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 20 June 2026
Interest in kratom surged in the last couple of years as users have reported consuming the compound in the form of a pill, powder or tea to treat various ailments.

— Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026