Thesaurus results for INGESTS

ingests

verb

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 Baits contain insecticide that may not only kill the roach who ingests it but that has a secondary transfer to other roaches who may eat that roach’s waste or the roach itself, says Benson. —

Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 4 June 2026 As the caterpillar ingests the leaf, its gut enzymes chop up the plant’s cellular engines and their pieces, including In11, are regurgitated back onto the leaf’s surface, albeit at extremely small concentrations. —

Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026 The system ingests customer history and anticipates reorders. —

Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 May 2026 Local Now ingests about 500,000 pieces of video per day. —

Todd Spangler, Variety, 14 May 2026 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 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

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Reducing the need for permanent port fuel infrastructure To support continuous operations, the platform consumes roughly 16,500 to 17,600 pounds of hydrogen per week, stored in modular, ISO-compatible low-pressure containers integrated into the floating structure.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 31 May 2026
When supply tightens in a state that still consumes tens of millions of gallons a day, prices become more volatile and more expensive.

— Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh, Oc Register, 31 May 2026