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Wildfires have been devouring large swaths of Algeria’s coast during an extreme heat wave, killing 34 people, authorities said.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2023

Swarms of desert locusts that have been devouring crops and pasture in the East Africa region have spread to South Sudan, the UN food agency says.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2020

Over the past 20 years, the deer population in the park has exploded, and the animals have been devouring plants and seedlings.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2017

Readers who have been devouring this popular series will be happy to encounter its inhabitants again.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2014

The great monopolies have been devouring the little ones.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green