as in to inhale
to swallow or eat greedily
with no time for fine dining, we just ingurgitated our food and went on our way
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As months and years of data arrived, Keeling’s rigorous work revealed two global phenomena: Earth’s plants inhaling CO2 each summer and exhaling it each winter, and CO2 levels’ unrelenting annual increase.—
Ashley Braun,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 May 2025 -
Workers who inhaled Teflon fumes developed flu-like symptoms.—
Mariah Blake,
The Atlantic,
5 May 2025
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As the story of our cosmos moves forward, stars will slowly burn out, planets will freeze over, and black holes will devour light itself.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
15 May 2025
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As Charlie soon learns, the alligator she’s been tasked with saving is in the process of devouring Joe.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
15 May 2025
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The young woman gulps it down, not realizing it is laced with a sedative.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
20 May 2025
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Some daredevils will let tarpon, which can grow up to 8 feet long, gulp their hands to the wrist for a great video moment, but Robbie’s visitors on a relatively quiet day in March were dangling fish through holes in a net, seemingly reluctant to participate in any unnerving limb gulping.—
Marnie Hunter,
CNN Money,
26 Apr. 2025
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If the Steakhouse’s menu winds up similar to the Reserve’s, locals accustomed to wolfing chili burgers at Star Country Cafe will need to dust off their wallets.—
Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
29 Jan. 2025
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There’s a complete lack of self-consciousness in Mother’s wolfing down handfuls of meatloaf or playfully woofing at strangers in public, and that’s matched by what Adams is doing to bring this woman to life.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Dec. 2024
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“Ingurgitate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingurgitate. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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