absorbed
Example Sentences
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The volume of debris it absorbed was five times greater than the volume of water alone.
Automation had been hollowing out middle-skill work since the early 2000s, quietly eliminating the clerical roles, bookkeeping jobs and sales positions that once absorbed India's graduates.
From BBC
Gough says he has absorbed roughly half the cost surge because passing it to consumers is risky, too.
This means that roughly 1.3 molybdenum-based metal complexes were activated for every photon absorbed, exceeding the usual limit and demonstrating that more energy carriers were produced than incoming photons.
From Science Daily
Chevron CEO Mike Wirth told a packed room on Monday that oil prices had not yet fully absorbed the effects of the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
From Barron's
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