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absorb

[ab-sawrb, -zawrb] / æbˈsɔrb, -ˈzɔrb /




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“The timing of when these barrels are absorbed will largely depend on the level of discounts available to potential buyers,” Li said.

From The Wall Street Journal

“We expect the company’s planned doubling of data-center capacity through 2027 to be rapidly absorbed by compute demand from scaling AI inference workloads.”

From MarketWatch

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory carries a relatively small 30 centimeter telescope, yet from its position in orbit it can observe ultraviolet wavelengths that are mostly absorbed by Earth's atmosphere.

From Science Daily

“I think athletes could deal with more volume—that’s something I would say from experience. And he has an athlete who can really absorb a lot of hard training.”

From The Wall Street Journal

"I found myself growing absorbed in the craft itself, especially the hamon" -- distinctive, milky-white patterns along the hardened edge of a katana.

From Barron's