gobbled; gobbling
ˈgä-b(ə-)liŋ 
1
: to swallow or eat greedily
2
: to take eagerly : grab
—usually used with up
3
: to read rapidly or greedily
—usually used with up
gobbled; gobbling
ˈgä-b(ə-)liŋ
1
: to make the natural guttural noise of a male turkey
2
: to make a sound resembling the gobble of a turkey
gobble
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Examples of gobble in a Sentence
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PCMAG, 1 Apr. 2024
UnitedHealth Group has gobbled up physician practices at an astounding rate — roughly 20,000 last year alone.
—Tara Bannow, STAT, 1 Apr. 2024
Tech behemoths are on an AI spending spree, doling out billions to invest in, poach from, and gobble up smaller companies developing the world’s artificial intelligence technology.
—Laura Bratton, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
Garvie made a few polite jabs at Sony’s indie competition, the likes of Banijay and Fremantle, who have been actively gobbling up international production companies in an buying spree over the past few years.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
Data analysis indicated a large number of homes had been gobbled up by investors to be used as both long- and short-term rentals.
—The Courier-Journal, 18 Mar. 2024
The Padres need a healthy player who can consistently gobble up middle innings out of the bullpen.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
The links in our taste were gobbled up quickly—perhaps too quickly.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 22 Mar. 2024
Many have long suspected that forces more sinister than excess demand and limited supply were gobbling up coveted foursomes.
—Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2024
Markian Hawryluk, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023
Each one shows different angles of a simulated Will Smith (at one point, even two Will Smiths) ravenously gobbling up spaghetti.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2023
Property owners like Gertsch are concerned that such a bypass would gobble up some of the last agricultural land and open space left in the area and dramatically change the valley.
—Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Jan. 2023
But that understates the scale of the change, because the European Central Bank will no longer gobble up huge quantities of bonds through quantitative easing.
—WSJ, 23 Dec. 2022
In multiple notes to investors, the analysts forecasted that several media companies—including Facebook and Instagram parent Meta, YouTube parent Alphabet, TikTok, Snap, and Pinterest—would gobble up some Twitter’s ad revenue, which totaled $4.5 billion in 2021.
—Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2022
With the National Turkey Federation pledging that there are plenty of turkeys to gobble up during this year's celebration -- when more Americans will gather than in 2020 -- Biden stuck to tradition, sparing two turkeys from the dinner table this year.
—Molly Nagle, ABC News, 18 Nov. 2021
In the wild, the birds will gobble up anything from small mammals to woodpeckers to fish and amphibians using their excellent eyesight and sharp hearing to silently swoop down on their prey.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
The new apartments will gobble up the equivalent of more than a decade of downtown office leasing.
—Dallas News, 8 July 2022
Verb
If your household is gobbling up bandwidth regularly, a tri-band router uses three radios—one at 2.4GHz and two at 5GHz.
—PCMAG, 1 Apr. 2024
UnitedHealth Group has gobbled up physician practices at an astounding rate — roughly 20,000 last year alone.
—Tara Bannow, STAT, 1 Apr. 2024
Tech behemoths are on an AI spending spree, doling out billions to invest in, poach from, and gobble up smaller companies developing the world’s artificial intelligence technology.
—Laura Bratton, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
Garvie made a few polite jabs at Sony’s indie competition, the likes of Banijay and Fremantle, who have been actively gobbling up international production companies in an buying spree over the past few years.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
Data analysis indicated a large number of homes had been gobbled up by investors to be used as both long- and short-term rentals.
—The Courier-Journal, 18 Mar. 2024
The Padres need a healthy player who can consistently gobble up middle innings out of the bullpen.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
The links in our taste were gobbled up quickly—perhaps too quickly.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 22 Mar. 2024
Many have long suspected that forces more sinister than excess demand and limited supply were gobbling up coveted foursomes.
—Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2024
Verb
Those economic forces have driven consolidation, as hospital systems gobble up physician clinics.
—Markian Hawryluk, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023
Each one shows different angles of a simulated Will Smith (at one point, even two Will Smiths) ravenously gobbling up spaghetti.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2023
Property owners like Gertsch are concerned that such a bypass would gobble up some of the last agricultural land and open space left in the area and dramatically change the valley.
—Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Jan. 2023
But that understates the scale of the change, because the European Central Bank will no longer gobble up huge quantities of bonds through quantitative easing.
—WSJ, 23 Dec. 2022
In multiple notes to investors, the analysts forecasted that several media companies—including Facebook and Instagram parent Meta, YouTube parent Alphabet, TikTok, Snap, and Pinterest—would gobble up some Twitter’s ad revenue, which totaled $4.5 billion in 2021.
—Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2022
With the National Turkey Federation pledging that there are plenty of turkeys to gobble up during this year's celebration -- when more Americans will gather than in 2020 -- Biden stuck to tradition, sparing two turkeys from the dinner table this year.
—Molly Nagle, ABC News, 18 Nov. 2021
In the wild, the birds will gobble up anything from small mammals to woodpeckers to fish and amphibians using their excellent eyesight and sharp hearing to silently swoop down on their prey.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
The new apartments will gobble up the equivalent of more than a decade of downtown office leasing.
—Dallas News, 8 July 2022
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