Synonyms for consumes
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1. List of paraphrases for "consumes":

   absorbs, uses

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1. Bhagavad Gita:

   As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.

2. Herbert Simon, economist:

   What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

3. Don Hamilton:

   Every new project that we work on includes seismic upgrades, but this is an enormous issue, and obviously upgrading all the bridges would be very, very expensive. This is a challenge that consumes us all the time.

4. Shree Nayar:

   What we have done is a calculation that shows that you can take the same design and make a compact image sensor chip with it. Of course that chip would be able to capture less light and therefore harvest less energy, because it is smaller. But it turns out when you make it a chip it also consumes less power.

5. Rudy Tanzi:

   Already, Alzheimer's consumes one in every five Medicare/Medicaid dollars, with 71 million baby boomers headed toward risk age, this will go to one in three, perhaps in the next decade, at which point Alzheimer's will single-handedly collapse Medicare/Medicaid.