Connie Nielsen

It's disconcerting that there's been this weird business model focused on teenaged boys, and it comes with a completely unexamined social cost. I hope there's an awareness happening to create an audience habituated to seeing women as they really are, rather than just a masticated shadow.

Danish Actress

Chadwick Boseman

I have my own personal masticating juicer at home. I sort of picked it up from friends a few years ago, and it just gives me more energy. Mostly green juice. Spinach, celery, kale, green apples, lemon, sometimes ginger - you know, like, nasty, euuugghhhh!

American Actor

Nolan Bushnell

How about keyboards in your mouth? How fast can you type with your tongue? People will think you're just masticating, when you're really talking to your girlfriend.

American Businessman

Masticate refers to the entire process of chewing, not just biting into something.

Chewing Process

'Masticate' is also used scientifically, often about how animals chew.

Common Animals

While all foods can be masticated, the word is often associated with harder or chewier foods.

Food Textures

'Masticate' in a technical context usually involves machinery processing materials.

Technical Usage

The word's technical use is primarily in industrial or manufacturing settings.

Industrial Association

In technical contexts, masticate signifies a change in the material’s form.

Material Transformation

In an idiomatic sense, 'masticate' means to carefully think something over.

Reflective Thinking

Here, 'masticate' conveys a thought process that's slow and deliberate, like chewing.

Deliberate Contemplation

The idiomatic use suggests deep and prolonged consideration, not casual thought.

Deep Consideration

 why don't they eat oh they do eat the intestines that's what he was eating he was eating the intestines but he was pushing out the half-digested bolus so the bonus is the kind of masticated