as in to vomit
to discharge (something) previously consumed
The mother dog regurgitates her food to feed her puppies.
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Recent Examples of regurgitate
These sea lilies had likely been eaten by an animal—possibly some type of fish—that subsequently regurgitated the indigestible parts.
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Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Dutch sea lily expert John Jagt concluded that the throw-up consisted of two different species of sea lilies mixed into a clump and that the creatures were eaten by another animal that had subsequently regurgitated the indigestible skeletal parts of their bodies, according to the release.
—Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025
The problem, Segal argues, will ultimately hurt Google in the long term: As the search engine takes content from third parties and regurgitates it in the form of AI results, those companies could become less incentivized to create new content.
—Richard Nieva, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Though the legal details sewn throughout The Prosecutor may well be accurate, the script regurgitates facts, figures and procedures with such relentless force that the sheer volume of information soon becomes overwhelming.
—James Marsh, Deadline, 10 Jan. 2025
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Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Dutch sea lily expert John Jagt concluded that the throw-up consisted of two different species of sea lilies mixed into a clump and that the creatures were eaten by another animal that had subsequently regurgitated the indigestible skeletal parts of their bodies, according to the release.
—Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025
The problem, Segal argues, will ultimately hurt Google in the long term: As the search engine takes content from third parties and regurgitates it in the form of AI results, those companies could become less incentivized to create new content.
—Richard Nieva, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Though the legal details sewn throughout The Prosecutor may well be accurate, the script regurgitates facts, figures and procedures with such relentless force that the sheer volume of information soon becomes overwhelming.
—James Marsh, Deadline, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regurgitate
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According to the mother, the infant vomited multiple times over the next few days, so an appointment was set up with a pediatrician on April 4, 2023, according to the warrant affidavit.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
2 Apr. 2025
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If consumed, Salmonella infection side effects could be vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, and fever, the FDA says.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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His family are from Bhutan, a tiny Buddhist kingdom on the eastern edge of the Himalayas, from where they were expelled in the 1990s because of a conflict over ethnicity and politics, sparked by resurgent Bhutanese nationalists.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
5 Apr. 2025
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But two days after Trump retook the White House this year on promises of tightening America’s borders and expelling violent criminals, Parris found himself at a red light in his Arizona neighborhood, surrounded by unmarked SUVs.—
Celina Tebor,
CNN Money,
3 Apr. 2025
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Since mid-March, the U.S. military has hurled more than $200 million worth of missiles, bombs, and rockets into the remote deserts and mountains of Yemen, in what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has dubbed, with sublime ahistorical clumsiness, Operation Rough Rider.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2025
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Avery hurls the ball toward the basket, hitting the rim but missing.—
Laura A. Bischoff,
USA Today,
6 Apr. 2025
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Reid, DiVincenzo, Holland, Isaiah Stewart, Marcus Sasser, Bickerstaff, 46, and Prigioni, 47, were all ejected from the game, NBA.com reported.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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After a month-long pause, during which the Kremlin’s priority was to eject a strong Ukrainian force from western Russia’s Kursk Oblast, the Russians are on the attack again outside Pokrovsk, a fortress city in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.—
David Axe,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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Mutual funds often disgorge unwanted capital gain dividends on holders, while ETFs rarely do.—
William Baldwin,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025
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Night skiing was featured to enable locals to ski after work, and on most afternoons in winter, yellow buses disgorged scores of local students, who took over the mountain.—
David Goodman,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
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