Thesaurus results for INGESTS

ingests

verb

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present tense third-person singular of ingest

as in consumes

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 swallows

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 ingests But the technique is now automated by AI, which ingests prompts and recombines preexisting media to spit out content. —

Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026 Anyone who accidentally ingests a poisonous mushroom, like the Death Cap, may not experience symptoms until six or 24 hours later. —

Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026 Alex Cui, Tian’s cofounder and chief technology officer, said that GPTZero’s hallucination checker tool ingests a paper and then searches across the open web and academic databases to verify each citation—its authors, title, publication venue, and link. —

Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026 Infant botulism is a serious illness that develops when an infant ingests spores of the botulinum bacteria, which then colonize the baby’s underdeveloped gut and begin producing a toxin. —

Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 29 Dec. 2025 If a cat ingests any part of a lily, its pollen or water, immediately contact a veterinarian or the Pet Poison Hotline. —

Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025 Just about the only remotely harsh words are spoken by Luis, in a brief, understandable fit of anger, after his dog ingests a raver’s feces, which contains traces of LSD. —

Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2025 The survey analyzed the habits of 2,000 Americans and found the average individual ingests 99 grams of sugar each day. —

Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025 In the United States, this job is handled by the federal government’s Global Forecast System (GFS), which ingests data from satellites, ground stations, radar systems, and a worldwide network of conventional weather balloons. —

IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2025

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Biofuels are also increasingly being used to power heavy transport, including aviation, which consumes about 8% of oil globally and where electrification remains a distant dream, while a push is underway to expand biofuel usage in shipping, responsible for about 7% of global oil consumption.

— Nithin Coca, semafor.com, 23 Apr. 2026
Flowering consumes a lot of plant energy, and stems that are blooming won’t root well.

— Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Apr. 2026