absorptive

Example Sentences

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Culture has a certain absorptive quality; when new people join a group, they tend to adopt its folkways.

From Washington Post

In the intestines, “absorptive enterocyte” cells responsible for absorbing some nutrients expressed were found to be most vulnerable.

From Fox News

Not only does the early snowmelt create a darker, more absorptive earth, it also bumps summer—and fire season—earlier.

From Scientific American

Playing on the cultural idea of charcoal as innately absorptive, charcoal toothpaste is often billed as a natural teeth whitener.

From Salon

Telescopes orbiting far above the blurring and absorptive effects of Earth’s atmosphere have beamed back sharp images from the remotest parts of the cosmos.

From The Guardian