osmose

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“Verse-jumpers” can use earpieces to puppet the bodies of their alternate selves, and they can osmose skills from counterparts in other worlds by performing pivotal actions that set their lives on different paths.

From The Verge • Mar. 12, 2022

I began to osmose from a neurotic cook with a confusing repertory of ethnic dishes to a relaxed one specializing in faintly Southern food.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 6, 2006

This happens because the water is making its way by osmose into the egg through the skin, which has no openings, so far as can be discovered.

From The First Book of Farming by Goodrich, Charles Landon

It will not be possible to blow through these twigs, but the red water will rise through them by osmose, and in a few hours will appear at the upper ends.

From The First Book of Farming by Goodrich, Charles Landon

The following interesting experiment will give you an idea of this process or force of osmose.

From The First Book of Farming by Goodrich, Charles Landon