absorb
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"Landlords are going to find it very, very hard to absorb those void periods," she says.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
Ms. Louis-Dreyfus’s glistening performance takes on a steely edge as Polly tries—and fails—to absorb Brooke’s news with equanimity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Last weekend, south Orange County received about an inch to an inch and a half of rainfall, but vegetation didn’t have enough time to absorb the moisture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
But some countries, including Saudi Arabia, India and China, say that postponing the "seventh assessment report" until 2029 will provide developing countries more time to absorb its findings.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
But they get away with it by arranging the words so that a reader can absorb them a phrase at a time, each phrase conveying a chunk of conceptual structure.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Yassine and his colleagues are now investigating how the brain absorbs, processes, and uses these nutrients.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
But genuinely funny moments are rare, badly outnumbered by done-to-death musings regarding the mysteries of being alive and torturous melodramatic moments in which Klara dully absorbs the severity of Josie’s illness and Chrissy’s sorrow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Bare ice is darker and less reflective than fresh snow, so absorbs more of the Sun's energy.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
But if AI absorbs the most manual elements of pulling pacing reports and tweaking platform bids, for example, practitioners might be able to see and work beyond their silos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The truck’s suspension absorbs the worst of the bumps, but it can only do so much.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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The departures unfold as CNN insiders consider their future under Skydance, which absorbed the network as part of its $111-billion merger with Warner Bros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
For example, Ralph Lauren created an interactive fashion-advice app called Ask Ralph that absorbed every interview the fashion mogul had ever given.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
Sunlight is absorbed by chlorophyll, a large, complex molecule found in microscopic bodies called chloroplasts, which give plants their green color.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The punishment he absorbed has raised questions over whether his decision to take an immediate rematch has come too soon but Wardley remains confident he can reverse the result.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
I jab a spoon in my cereal, which has absorbed so much milk that the pieces look like bloated life jackets bobbing in a speckled ocean.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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Heavy periods, low dietary iron, gastrointestinal blood loss and problems absorbing iron through the gut can all play a role.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Jet-fuel expenses have surged by tens of billions of dollars, but carriers say households are absorbing the increase in fares.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
“You Can See Everything” is an absorbing study of public presentation and private doubts, a documentary that asks more questions than it answers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
And Brian Mulberry, chief market strategist at Zacks Investment Management, told MarketWatch that absorbing Chipotle would likely require hefty financing at a time when bond yields have risen sharply.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Granddaddy said, “I find that actually reading the book is a much more effective way of absorbing it.”
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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