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absorbed

adjective as in being completely occupied mentally

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Following his sojourn in Europe and a brief stint back stateside, he won another fellowship to study in Mexico, where he absorbed the lessons of the activist muralists there.

Researchers reporting in Advanced Healthcare Materials have found that stevioside, a natural sweetener extracted from the Stevia plant, can help improve how well the drug is absorbed through the skin.

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Bin Sulayem: Whatever cannot be absorbed or has difficulty going to the U.S. is going to other parts of the world.

For an asteroid that is spinning smoothly on its axis, the directions in which sunlight is absorbed and re-emitted remains constant, allowing the strength of the push from sunlight to build up.

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But these psychic wounds didn’t make Candy a cruel or nasty person; he simply absorbed the hurt and redoubled his efforts to be a genial performer.

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