regurgitation

noun

re·gur·gi·ta·tion (ˌ)rē-ˌgər-jə-ˈtā-shən

: an act of regurgitating: such as

: the casting up of incompletely digested food (as by some birds in feeding their young)

: the backward flow of blood through a defective heart valve

Examples of regurgitation in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Share [Findings] Vampire bats who are strangers will groom one another before sharing blood via regurgitation. —

Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 19 June 2024 Former James Cook University PhD student Nicolas Lubitz and his team saw the chance regurgitation during a tagging trip in May 2022 and the discovery is believed to be a world-first. —

Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 June 2024 The early 2000s keeps on giving us a regurgitation of fitting trends from low-rise jeans to skinny jeans, which are inevitably back to many people’s dismay. —

Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 29 May 2024 Past attempts to make the system give more human-like responses, beyond simple fact regurgitation or rudimentary stories, were largely rebuffed by ChatGPT. —

Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for regurgitation

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