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absorb

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




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“For a 13-year-old to hang with Sweets Edison and absorb his philosophy, how intelligent he was, and how much he believed in people. I was lucky.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Larger companies tend to have a bigger buffer that allows them to absorb more of these costs.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

"There's a limit to what companies can absorb," Rainey told CNBC, alluding to the $2 billion impact.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

"Our calculations regard the concrete physical model of an atom that is placed in a cavity between two mirrors, where it can absorb and emit light particles," says postdoc Marcelo Janovitch.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

It's starting to feel as if the crowd will absorb us and move us.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

These orbitals contain valuable information about how a molecule behaves and interacts with its environment, including how it absorbs light and how chemical reactions may unfold.

From Science Daily Aug. 24, 2026

Use them in the same year and the deduction absorbs conversion income that would otherwise be taxed at your top rate.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

Its open crumb absorbs just enough sauce to become more flavorful as it sits, while the soft crust remains easy to eat on a towel without showering your lap in shards.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

With many years of military experience, I know what happens when you ration a scarce, aging fleet against rising demand: readiness erodes, and someone downstream absorbs the risk.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

There’s a long pause at the table while everyone absorbs this.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

You might have absorbed her cumulative presence across decades of guest roles from “The Twilight Zone” to “The Rockford Files” to “Newhart.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

The method allowed them to measure how the light reflected by the material changed almost immediately after the MOF absorbed a laser pulse.

From Science Daily Aug. 21, 2026

While it has suffered thousands of casualties, its troops are now drone-savvy, having absorbed the lessons of the Ukraine war.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Most of the rain that does eventually fall will be absorbed by the parched ground before it can replenish rivers, exacerbating the problem.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

The doorway soon absorbed her boxes, and she gave me her hand and a smile, and said good-night, and was absorbed likewise.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Hayes said consumers had stopped absorbing price increases and were migrating to the biggest and cheapest stores as they hunted for deals and tried to manage higher costs of living.

From MarketWatch Aug. 21, 2026

The feature is usually linked to dense gas absorbing photons in the atmospheres of stars that are a few hundred million years old.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

Amazon and Twitch are not the first to start absorbing user data to build AI models as competition in the sector heats up.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

“Operators have been absorbing that complexity themselves, manually, every night. That should not be the standard,” said SevenRooms’ CEO Joel Montaniel.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

The magnetic words scraped on the tray as Emily pushed them, absorbing what Hollister had to say.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman




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