osmosis
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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
So when Swift takes a phone call in the documentary and says, "Baby", the whole theatre erupts - knowing through pop culture osmosis exactly who is on the other end of the line.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 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
Larry Gagosian sold Basquiat upstairs while De la Huerta was a baby below, and her work sometimes has the effect of childlike depictions of what she learned by osmosis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025
Collins’s approach wasn’t “You must remember this variation of the King’s Indian Defense, which is much stronger than what you played”—rather, he relied on a kind of osmosis.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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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