digest
verb (used with object)
to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
is digesting
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present progressiveof digest (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Wedbush analyst Dan Ives, who has been bullish on SpaceX stock, said the market is digesting “massive debt and equity raises from Big Tech players” in the coming years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
The industry is digesting the talk of a toll through the Strait of Hormuz.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
The auto industry is digesting a new and potentially damaging supply-chain disruption from an unlikely source: a small Dutch semiconductor manufacturer with an outsize influence on how cars and trucks are made.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
And so I think that naturally reduces the scope of what satire is capable of and what it's interested in, and the news that it is digesting and converting into satire.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2024
"Then," the speaker on uncles went on, "tell him, while he is digesting it, that his banker has failed."
From The Magic Skin by Ellen Marriage
