consumable

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Recent Examples of consumable The bill was recently approved by both the Senate and House, and would prohibit the making and sale of consumable hemp products that contain any amount of a cannabinoid other than CBD and CBG. Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 June 2025 What To Know On Wednesday last week, the State House voted to ban all consumable THC hemp products. Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025 This decline is due to lower instrument and consumable sales and the addition of consumer products revenue at a lower margin. Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2025 Flowers, food and other consumable items (within reasonable quantities) are acceptable, as are copies of books presented by the author, provided the subject matter is not controversial. Rachel Burchfield, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for consumable
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Adjective
  • Fuels in the area remained extremely dry and highly flammable.
    Arlyssa D. Becenti, AZCentral.com, 5 July 2025
  • In 2021, Newsom created a wildfire and forest resilience task force, which recommended the state and federal governments manage flammable overgrowth on 1 million acres of the 33 million acres of forestlands in California every year.
    Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • And all this against an inflammable backdrop of geopolitical crises including but not limited to the Israel-Hamas war and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
    John Leicester, Quartz, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Heat also stresses old electrical systems — insulation breaks down; lubricants in relays dry out — and a not-insignificant amount of the subway’s electrical wiring dates to the 1920s and 1930s, some of it cloth-covered, inflammable, and pervious to water.
    Curbed, Curbed, 28 July 2023
Adjective
  • Tom Cruise has been awarded the Guinness World Record for most burning parachute jumps by an individual, netting a whopping 16 flaming jumps while filming Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 5 June 2025
  • The action star, 62, now has a Guinness World Records title for most burning parachute jumps by an individual, the organization announced Thursday, June 5.
    Jack Smart, People.com, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • Tonight, the gravity of the occasion—perhaps the biggest reunion in our lifetime—makes the atmosphere combustible.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 5 July 2025
  • In turn, this can help alleviate nicotine cravings and reduce withdrawal symptoms, among smokers of combustible cigarettes as well as e-cigarettes (vaping).
    Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
Adjective
  • Somewhat surprisingly, flaming saganaki is now also catching on in Greece, especially in tourist-heavy restaurants, such as the Athens Yacht Club.
    David Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2025
  • Among the disturbing scenes from the recent Los Angeles protests, which erupted over federal immigration raids, are those in which protestors stood around the flaming Waymos.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 9 June 2025

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“Consumable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consumable. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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