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
In the race to cover as many languages as possible, any available data of whatever provenance is being slipped into the mix and regurgitated for commercial gain.
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Ross Perlin, The Dial, 14 Nov. 2024
Or for Alexander Dane, the Shakespearean actor who wants everyone to know there's much more to his resumé than regurgitating catchphrases while wearing alien prosthetics.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 31 Dec. 2024
Far more likely is that a language model will simply regurgitate an already dominant point of view.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2024
Sharing Could be Crucial to Survival In a 1984 study in Nature, biologist Gerald S. Wilkinson observed how wild vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) regurgitated blood for other bats that had failed to feed that night.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
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Ross Perlin, The Dial, 14 Nov. 2024
Or for Alexander Dane, the Shakespearean actor who wants everyone to know there's much more to his resumé than regurgitating catchphrases while wearing alien prosthetics.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 31 Dec. 2024
Far more likely is that a language model will simply regurgitate an already dominant point of view.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2024
Sharing Could be Crucial to Survival In a 1984 study in Nature, biologist Gerald S. Wilkinson observed how wild vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) regurgitated blood for other bats that had failed to feed that night.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regurgitate
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Symptoms of poisoning are vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, irregular heartbeat, decreased appetite.—
Ella Gonzales,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Feb. 2025
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About 10 meters away, a man sitting on his bed vomited loudly.—
ByMartin Enserink,
science.org,
6 Feb. 2025
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The Arab League is holding a summit in Egypt on Tuesday to strategize a proposal to counter President Donald Trump's proposal to forcibly expel Palestinians from their land in Gaza and reconstruct the strip -- a proposal that experts and U.S. allies have said violates international law.—
Nadine El-Bawab,
ABC News,
26 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, a White House official this week proposed expelling Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network, in a move that could further escalate tensions between the two countries.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Rock and Leslie Jones play an old, bitter married couple who are getting ready to go out for their anniversary while constantly hurling insults at each other.—
Jesse David Fox,
Vulture,
14 Feb. 2025
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When the blaze reached the mansions of Bel-Air, thermal heat lifted burning shingles high into the air and 50-mph winds hurled them more than a mile over to Brentwood.—
Jenny Jarvie,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2025
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As Mavericks fans were being ejected from the stadium, Nowitzki was out in Los Angeles, sitting in the stands to show Dončić his support.—
Louisa Thomas,
The New Yorker,
16 Feb. 2025
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The two crew members ejected and parachuted into the bay before the plane slammed into the water.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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After aging is deemed complete, the cellar team disgorges the wines by hand without freezing the neck.—
Lauren Mowery,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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Dear Loving Man, All this is spilling out like a bottle bubbling and disgorging, without much forethought.—
Seamus Heaney,
Harper's Magazine,
2 June 2024
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“Regurgitate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regurgitate. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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