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v. - Take up mentally; Serve oneself to, or consume regularly..

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  • Marine ciliates ingest other single-celled creatures
  • Tearing apart dead animals for the spawn to ingest is a popular tradition during the holidays.
  • When tumor cells "ingest" the nanoparticles through the cell membrane, the particles release the inhibitor.
  • These robots, written in Ruby perform the sub-processes that make up SDR 2.0 modules such as ingest and retrieval.
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