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osmosis

[oz-moh-sis, os-] / ɒzˈmoʊ sɪs, ɒs- /
NOUN
absorption
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Traditional desalination methods such as reverse osmosis and thermal distillation can be expensive and energy intensive.

From Science Daily ● May 31, 2026

Spending a little time in a grocery store checkout line is all it takes to absorb the highlights of “The Real Housewives” or “Love Island” by osmosis.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026

It's via this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will pick up the British traits they wish instil.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2025

People saw Manning not as a player with three collegiate starts to his name, but one who’d absorbed the expertise of uncles Peyton and Eli via osmosis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025

And again, he stopped often simply to absorb by osmosis the immense grandeur, loneliness, majesty, and both frail and cruel beauty of his surroundings.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

A sense of humor osmoses from one to the other.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018

Thoreau might have siphoned insight from his surroundings; Bennett’s narrator osmoses into hers completely.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 11, 2016


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