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absorption

[ab-sawrp-shuhn, -zawrp-] / æbˈsɔrp ʃən, -ˈzɔrp- /




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He eventually identified three whose absorption patterns showed evidence of heavy elements including carbon, oxygen and silicon.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Chow thinks Tenaga absorption of 120 million ringgit-150 million ringgit in fuel-adjustment charges to be a one-off cost, though the precedent could weigh on sentiment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Each formulation was tested for several important properties, including compressive strength, split tensile strength, water absorption, and impact resistance.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Citi says margins could realistically be negative given fixed-cost absorption, high raw-material headwinds and worse-than-consensus volumes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

I feared that my absorption with events in my past amounted to an immature refusal to live in the present.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

Organic growth was 10%, of which 4% was same clinic growth and 6% from clinic absorptions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

A record of fascinations is at risk of careening into self-indulgence, but “Affinities” is also a record of absorptions, both Dillon’s and those of the artists he loves.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023

These epithelia are active in the secretion and absorptions of molecules.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Richard Prince, Sherrie Levine and other “re-photographers” delighted and outraged viewers with their canny absorptions of other artists’ work.

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2010

We lean, side by side, over our balcony, lost in such egotistical absorptions, quite heedless of the great palace of noble dreams to which our first enterprise has brought us.

From A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells




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