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regurgitates

verb

present tense third-person singular of regurgitate
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 In December, his newspaper The Washington Post, against the wishes of staffers, launched an AI podcast feature that badly regurgitates its articles, with predictably disastrous results. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 30 Apr. 2026 Democrats have backed Chris Kluwe, a former NFL punter and political neophyte who largely regurgitates progressive talking points on everything from healthcare to taxation. — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 22 Apr. 2026 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. — 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
  1. vomits
  2. expels
  3. hurls
  4. ejects
Verb
  • On the night of the reprieve, Owen, cut loose for the evening by his girlfriend, who wants to canoodle with a neighbor, vomits in the vicinity of Allie’s high heels, in what might be called a meet-boot.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Moments later, Owen vomits in front of her after eating his and Malika’s meals at dinner.
    — Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of vomits
Verb
  • To protect itself, the coral expels its own algae — a primary food, energy, and oxygen source — and soon loses its color.
    — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Now they are being flown to Bhutan - a country that still refuses to recognize them as citizens and expels them on arrival to India or Nepal.
    — Maansi Srivastava, NPR, 21 July 2026
Definition of expels
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  • Former Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins hurls a deep ball toward Jefferson in double coverage, and McCardell stops the play.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The mathematical problem concerns the Navier-Stokes equations, which govern the flow of fluids—from the whirlpool circling your bathtub’s drain to the turbulent winds El Niño hurls across the North American continent.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of hurls
Verb
  • More than anything, the problem lies in the execution — as an absolutely catastrophic event effectively ejects Coulter and Fetters’ main character from his own story and into the abyss of early 2000s political turmoil.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2026
  • This development forcibly ejects the mild-mannered mammal into both his parents’ den and the wild — literally — world of dating, where smelling suitors’ pee takes the place of an app profile.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 22 May 2026
Definition of ejects

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“Regurgitates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regurgitates. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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