BITES (AT) Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

bites (at)

verb

present tense third-person singular of bite (at)

as in erodes

to consume or wear away gradually the waves were biting at the sand castle I had worked so hard on

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Financial privacy erodes gradually through risk assessments, compliance obligations, information sharing partnerships and international standards presented as technical rather than political.

— Susie Violet Ward, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
This undermines financial stability, erodes reserves intended for true emergencies, and increases the likelihood of necessary cuts or emergency measures in the future.

— Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2026

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Inadvertently, Charlotte and I were, with our company run out of her basement, involved at a very seminal level in changing the way America eats in terms of its vegetables.

— Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
The series would follow an Italian-American kid who eats moon rocks, fails to digest them, and ends up with terribly inconvenient superpowers.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 7 July 2026

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