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ate

(āt)
v.
Past tense of eat
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The drivers were so distracted from both hunger and eating that they ate a small amount, mindlessly, while those watching television were distracted from hunger but not from eating, so they mindlessly ate a large amount.
Just under half of the men, and a little more than a third of the women, said they ate quickly.
I was determined to get my life back on track so, when they wanted me to eat, I ate. If I had refused to eat, they would have hospitalized me for tube-feeding.
When researchers tracked more than 34,000 women for 18 years, those who ate at least four servings of beans a week had a 33 percent lower risk of colon adenomas than those who ate beans no more than once a week.
From September 2004 to January 2005, stool specimens of patients who ate raw fish were examined to determine the prevalence of diphyllobothriasis.
Our ancestors ate a wide variety of in-season, wildcrafted, and organically grown plants.
Nevertheless, I did not expect school lunches to reach the standard of restaurant food, so I tested them against my own taste memories of the hundreds of school lunches I ate as a kid, growing up in western Massachusetts, and against each other.
The Seychelles mothers ate a variety of fish that contain similar concentrations of methylmercury as fish eaten in the United States.
The certified nursing assistants (CNAs) consistently estimated that the residents ate a higher percentage of food than was actually eaten.
Between The Zone and Lean Bodies it appears w&d be a nation of beanpoles if we just watched TV 12 hours a day and ate potato chips the entire time.
With regards to sadness, 5% said they ate more, 44% ate less, 37% did not eat anything and 12% said no difference.
They found that brain-injured rats fed the fish oil-supplemented diet found the platform's location in about two-thirds the time it took the injured rats that ate the standard rat chow to do so.
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