as in vomits
to discharge (something) previously consumed
The mother dog regurgitates her food to feed her puppies.
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Recent Examples of regurgitates
The Prime helpfully regurgitates Marjorie’s own life stories, though her daughter Tess (Cynthia Nixon) and son-in-law Jon (Danny Burstein) don’t agree about how truthful this pseudo-Walter should be.
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
The model blends and regurgitates existing material.
—Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
This joyless, crass Platinum Dunes remake (directed by Marcus Nispel) regurgitates the original’s plot with additional gore but without any of the sharp wit.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Sep. 2025
Holland and Marek Epstein’s screenplay breathlessly regurgitates an aggregated fact sheet of Kafka’s life.
—Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
The model blends and regurgitates existing material.
—Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
This joyless, crass Platinum Dunes remake (directed by Marcus Nispel) regurgitates the original’s plot with additional gore but without any of the sharp wit.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Sep. 2025
Holland and Marek Epstein’s screenplay breathlessly regurgitates an aggregated fact sheet of Kafka’s life.
—Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for regurgitates
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Shows were led by a sentient wad of meat, a talk-show host who vomits in front of guests, and a reality-TV star who never shows his face.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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Absinthe-eyed, she projectile-vomits blunt observations and also oysters onto the heavies, overimbibing her way into her own grave once she’s inevitably discarded with a shot and shove down a stairwell (a barely-there John Magaro plays one of the gangsters).—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
4 Mar. 2026
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The team found the center of M82 expels the equivalent of seven suns each year.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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Gut motility, the process by which the digestive system processes food and expels stool, tends to slow with aging.—
Catherine Ho,
San Francisco Chronicle,
8 Mar. 2026
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The Trueba family’s passions, struggles, and secrets span a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that hurls the proud, tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter towards opposite sides of the fence.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
26 Mar. 2026
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When a player fully lets go of their racket and hurls it to the floor, the frame can bounce up and go just about anywhere.—
James Hansen,
New York Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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At the same time, a salty liquid containing calcium chloride (a salt often used to de-ice roads) is pumped through the regenerator, which carries the heat away and ejects it to the surroundings on exit.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
5 Feb. 2026
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Results published in Nature show that cells use bioelectricity to coordinate a complex collective behavior called extrusion, a vital process that ejects sick or struggling individual cells from tissue to maintain health and keep growth in check.—
Elise Cutts,
Quanta Magazine,
12 Jan. 2026
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