as in to vomit
to discharge (something) previously consumed
The mother dog regurgitates her food to feed her puppies.
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Recent Examples of regurgitate
Expect speeches, stories, and probably a few mentions of the time Humpy Wheeler had a guy swallow and regurgitate race predictions.
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Greg Engle, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Consider an example like chatbots regurgitating news articles, as is alleged in The New York Times' dispute with OpenAI over ChatGPT.
—ArsTechnica, 12 May 2025
This is true even for students who do not regurgitate a full ChatGPT essay.
—Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Drawing from cognitive science, Chollet described such intelligence as the ability to quickly acquire skills and solve unfamiliar problems from first principles, rather than just memorizing enormous amounts of training data and regurgitating information.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2025
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Greg Engle, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Consider an example like chatbots regurgitating news articles, as is alleged in The New York Times' dispute with OpenAI over ChatGPT.
—ArsTechnica, 12 May 2025
This is true even for students who do not regurgitate a full ChatGPT essay.
—Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Drawing from cognitive science, Chollet described such intelligence as the ability to quickly acquire skills and solve unfamiliar problems from first principles, rather than just memorizing enormous amounts of training data and regurgitating information.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regurgitate
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This can take many forms, such as forcing oneself to vomit or by using laxatives or diuretics.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
3 June 2025
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Patients sickened by it can develop stomach cramps, diarrhea, nausea and the urge to vomit anywhere from six hours to six days after infection, the CDC says.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC news,
31 May 2025
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Even more disheartening was the Berea College case from 1908, where the Supreme Court upheld a Kentucky law that forced an integrated Christian College, whose mission was to educate youths of all races, to expel all its black students in the name of segregation.—
James Burling,
Oc Register,
2 June 2025
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Video of the talent show is online, and there are parents in the comments suggesting that Elijah be expelled.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
29 May 2025
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Demonstrators blocked the 101 Freeway, set self-driving cars ablaze and hurled incendiary devices — and, in some cases, chunks of concrete — at law enforcement officers.—
Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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Jackie Chan is one of the greatest stuntmen ever, mostly for his willingness to hurl himself into extreme danger and his ability to keep delivering his lines afterward – not to mention basically inventing the Kung Fu comedy genre.—
Joe Salas
June 07,
New Atlas,
7 June 2025
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He was ejected from 10 games in 1898 and was arrested in the offseason for killing a mule that belonged to a farmer.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
6 June 2025
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The Subaru then rolled over and struck a light pole, ejecting him from the vehicle.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
6 June 2025
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The Chinese appear to be disgorging themselves of their vast stash of treasuries.—
Brian Domitrovic,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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There were only three working business establishments, all of them taverns that loudly disgorged their patrons at 2 a.m.—
Murr Brewster,
Christian Science Monitor,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Regurgitate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regurgitate. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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