Thesaurus results for PARTAKES (OF)

partakes (of)

verb

present tense third-person singular of partake (of)

as in consumes

to take in as food anyone planning to partake of the vegetarian meal needs to sign up for it beforehand

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Yet a cannabis marketer who consumes — or, just as notably, one who doesn’t — often finds their professional credibility subjected to a level of scrutiny that has no real parallel elsewhere.

— Peter Su, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
One early target is underground mine ventilation, which consumes a significant share of electricity at subsurface operations.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 July 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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