absorbing

Example Sentences

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“The market was positioned as a flagship host city but is now absorbing a gap between expectation and reality.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

"Clean energy is absorbing most of the world's new electricity demand, with coal barely growing at all," she said.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

One wing stretches west along the river toward Louisville, absorbing some of its outer suburbs.

From Slate • May 19, 2026

But divorcing a film like this from the times in which we’re absorbing it is short of impossible, no matter how much of an escape it provides for 109 minutes.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

His pupils had dilated in the lamplight, absorbing the hazel of the iris.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover