absorbed

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SpaceX, which absorbed Musk's AI company xAI, could see shares begin trading as early as June 12.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

George Santayana’s famous observation about history has been absorbed into the bloodstream of popular thought: Those who don’t learn from it are doomed to repeat it.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

Usyk responded with a sharp double uppercut in the second, but Verhoeven absorbed it well and fired back with two right hands of his own.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

"When we compared the spectra during the transit to the baseline, we saw that the atmosphere blocked the wavelengths of starlight absorbed by methane," Bello-Arufe said.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

I had been so absorbed for so long with setting up and executing the first part of the trip that I hadn’t actually stopped to consider where I would be at this point.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson