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as in to consume
to take in as food
claims that the average person ingests considerably more calories than is necessary or desirable
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as in to swallow
to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat
ingested the foul-tasting medicine with only the greatest difficulty
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The Wisconsin resident who was sickened by the E. coli bacteria amid an ongoing outbreak did not ingest the bacteria at a Wisconsin McDonald's location, the state Department of Health Services said in a statement Wednesday.
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Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2024
Advertisement An autopsy showed that Justin died Feb. 18 after ingesting a fatal amount of fentanyl, a highly potent drug that can be life-threatening to children in even the smallest doses.
—Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
In 2023, 6,850 people died from ingesting the lethal drug fentanyl, an extremely potent opioid that has exponentially plagued the state since 2019.
—Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
The bacteria is often spread to humans after consuming infected animal products or by ingesting produce grown using infected water.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 24 Oct. 2024
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Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2024
Advertisement An autopsy showed that Justin died Feb. 18 after ingesting a fatal amount of fentanyl, a highly potent drug that can be life-threatening to children in even the smallest doses.
—Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
In 2023, 6,850 people died from ingesting the lethal drug fentanyl, an extremely potent opioid that has exponentially plagued the state since 2019.
—Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
The bacteria is often spread to humans after consuming infected animal products or by ingesting produce grown using infected water.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 24 Oct. 2024
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If necessary, vampire bats can gorge and consume four times their body weight in liquid.Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
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Koalas spend most of their time sleeping and eating — consuming a diet mostly of eucalyptus leaves.Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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Common symptoms include a sore throat from tissue irritation, bad breath caused by thriving bacteria, and sometimes difficulty swallowing, if the stones are big enough.Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
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Cherished memories — photo albums, family heirlooms, and tokens of love — swallowed by floodwaters and carried miles away, are now reduced to mere fragments and discarded amid the wreckage.Alaa Elassar, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
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However hot dogs may have originated, the council estimates Americans will eat 7 billion of them between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day.Don Sweeney, sacbee, 19 July 2017
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In fact, a recent survey showed that 36% of Chick-fil-A dinner customers take their meal to go from restaurants to eat at home.Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 19 July 2017
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After, attendees headed to the garden to sip Champagne in front of a display of perfume bottles and take in a live performance by Swedish singer Lykke Li, dressed in the final show look.Jennifer Weil, WWD, 5 Nov. 2024
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Tastings of the brand’s four sipping tequilas are offered at the 12-seat bar.Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 3 Nov. 2024
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Ten times as many people, meanwhile, reported drinking alcohol daily or almost daily.Marin Cogan, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
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Madrid: Bar And Restaurant Mecca This year’s glitzy gala was held in Madrid–a city famed for its exciting food and drink culture and superb nightlife–bringing bartenders, cocktail aficionados and drinks media in their thousands to the Spanish capital.Isabelle Kliger, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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But those seeking restraint and something more clever than the usual carnage will find this talky (in a good way) creeper offers more to chew on than the genre norm.Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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From its very first episode, Agatha All Along went to great lengths to show us that, even with WandaVision’s lead killed off in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, there was still plenty of — and perhaps too much — meat for Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha Harkness to chew on.Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Ingest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingest. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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