absorb

Example Sentences

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“I’m absorbing,” said the voice under the book.

From Literature

Gold is absorbing risk that markets are no longer confident can be diversified away.

From MarketWatch

Perhaps less familiar to most readers but no less absorbing is the book’s treatment of colonial Spanish missionaries’ encounter with Aztec rituals.

From The Wall Street Journal

Using these comparisons, they estimated how large the Achilles tendon would need to be to absorb the forces generated during hopping by such heavy animals.

From Science Daily

Any soft objects such as carpet or clothing that could absorb and hold onto contamination were discarded.

From Los Angeles Times