Thesaurus results for GOBBLING (UP)

gobbling (up)

verb

present participle of gobble (up)

as in dipping (into)

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Beginning in the mid-1990s, Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear agency, helped build the facility, subsequently administering it for years before turning over control to the Iranian regime.

— Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
The Department of Justice sued Maryland and several other states for not turning over private voter rolls, which include personal information for millions of Maryland voters.

— JT Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 22 June 2026

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Their supporters with zero life experience are devouring their pie-in-the-sky mumbo jumbo.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026
On America’s 250th birthday, there was former San Jose resident Joey Chestnut on a stage at Coney Island in New York City, devouring hot dogs faster than anyone.

— Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 4 July 2026

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At the time, AFTVnews reported that two of the apps served as residential proxy providers and were considered riskware, and that the other two had APK files that were flagged by virus-scanning tools.

— Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 30 June 2026
AmbiStack takes over downstream by scanning and stacking cases for receiving.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026

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