absorber
Example Sentences
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Cash flow was significantly stronger than expected, due to lower investments, but this only acts as a partial shock absorber to the negative results, they add.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
First, China has turned itself into the world’s oil shock absorber.
From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025
“In a perfect world,” Velis said, the SRF would be the shock absorber, where you are lending against good collateral to banks at the auction rate.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 13, 2025
“I noticed that I started to feel really content with packaging my food, sticking them in the oxygen absorber, and then putting them in my bin,” Moffitt said.
From Salon • Jan. 8, 2025
Hermes was now pulling Beck and Watney along, with Vogel's use of the tether acting as a shock absorber.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
Vocabulary lists containing absorber
Nuclear Processes
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Physics - High School
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