absorbing

Example Sentences

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Absorbing Hang Seng would simplify HSBC’s business there, said Citigroup analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Absorbing even some of the liabilities would be accompanied by "material costs, which would undermine China's fiscal strength and potentially its creditworthiness", it said.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2023

Absorbing the adulation—and gradually coming to believe his own mythology—Giuliani plotted a course to the White House and was considered a more than plausible candidate.

From Slate • Aug. 16, 2023

Absorbing or ingesting mercury-contaminated water or food has been found to cause neurological illness, immune diseases and reproductive failure in humans and some birds.

From Reuters • Aug. 5, 2023

Absorbing these psychosocial realities created all kinds of distortions and difficulties that manifest themselves today in multiple ways.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson