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as in to consume
to destroy all trace of a series of devastating storms devoured the beach on the south side of the island
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as in to spend
to make complete use of a catastrophic medical event that devoured their savings
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Recent Examples of devour Many new viewers devoured the show in one go ahead of the second season, which has aired weekly since January. —
Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026 Greg Dubuque’s 40 drivers are in a constant diesel-devouring loop. —Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026 Coors Field has made Hall of Famers feign injuries, rookies beg for mercy, and used Lorenzen for dental floss after the Phillies devoured, in order, his curve, slider, cutter, changeup and sinker. —Troy Renck, Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2026 With horses to ride, fish to catch, and hearty cowboy meals to devour, there’s no time for screens on a dude ranch vacation. —Julie Bielenberg, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for devour
Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026 Greg Dubuque’s 40 drivers are in a constant diesel-devouring loop. —Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026 Coors Field has made Hall of Famers feign injuries, rookies beg for mercy, and used Lorenzen for dental floss after the Phillies devoured, in order, his curve, slider, cutter, changeup and sinker. —Troy Renck, Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2026 With horses to ride, fish to catch, and hearty cowboy meals to devour, there’s no time for screens on a dude ranch vacation. —Julie Bielenberg, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for devour
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That’s why David Gallo’s setting, a vista of a fragile boarding house nearly consumed by the rising, sun-blotting, industrial landscape of Pittsburgh, works so effectively here.— Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2026
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Investigators suspect one Georgia fire was sparked when an aluminum party balloon touched live power lines; that blaze has consumed 50 square miles, twice Manhattan’s size.— Emilie Megnien, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
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In 2025, the department spent about thirty million dollars paying people not to work.— Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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Los Angeles spent most of Sunday slowing the tempo and trying to drag a faster, better team into the mud with them.— Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 20 Apr. 2026
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The vehicle lowers slightly and seems to inhale the pavement.— Chris Jackson, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026
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For breathwork, Yasinksi recommends inhaling for four seconds, pausing for four seconds at the top, and then exhaling slowly.— Lesly Gregory, AJC.com, 23 Apr. 2026
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Pirro described the operations as highly organized, industrial-scale fraud hubs that attract victims with fake cryptocurrency investments and romance scams, often draining life savings.— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 23 Apr. 2026
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Basins, aquifers, and other natural storage systems have been drained past recovery in our lifetimes, and one analyst warns markets aren’t taking the matter seriously enough.— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
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Energy efficiency and carbon reduction were a big part of the pitch, as terrestrial data centers gulp enormous amounts of power and millions of gallons of coolant water.— Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 28 Mar. 2026
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With the dead and the wounded sprawled around them, the mocambos gulped the wine from the sacramental chalice.— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
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This is because eventually the sellers exhaust themselves while the buyers are persisting at the same price multiple times.— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026
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When one physician is exhausted, others compensate.— Jennifer Obel, Twin Cities, 22 Apr. 2026
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Not in terms of the scale of its sets—we’ll leave that to the giant staircase in The Queen of Versailles, or whatever is going on with the flying vampires of The Lost Boys—but in terms of the most tropes crammed into one two-act stretch.— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2026
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Memorization and keywords help non-English speakers On a recent Saturday, eight students crammed into a tiny classroom with road signs adorning the walls.— David Ovalle, NPR, 20 Apr. 2026
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Gas peakers — plants designed for short, high-output bursts — are now being co-located with data center campuses specifically to absorb these inference spikes that baseload plants can’t respond to fast enough.— Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 24 Apr. 2026
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Your digestive microbiome acts as a gatekeeper in deciding what are nutrients to be absorbed and what are toxins to be excreted, Choden said.— Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
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“Devour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/devour. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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