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
He said the pipeline was already so full there is a question of “absorptive capacity.”
From New York Times
“This has made it extremely challenging for countries to plan vaccination campaigns and increase absorptive capacity.”
From New York Times
She also suggested that Russia could implement more fire protection measures on lands currently considered “unmanaged,” allowing them to eventually be counted as “managed” and further boosting the absorptive capacity.
From Washington Post
"Dune" is available to HBO Max subscribers for free, but unless you have a superior living room theater set up, you'll be robbing yourself of the absorptive experience a theater offers.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
