osmosis

Example Sentences

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"I think technology is the thing that causes these big step changes in civilization," Musk said, going into a monologue about the Gutenberg press, the internet, the nervous system and exchanging information via osmosis.

From Salon

People, yes, but perhaps another generation of folks with this hero in common, learning through the osmosis of good television how to live their lives in homage to him.

From New York Times

But during the four years they lived together, Lessing never offered notes or advice; anything Diski learned was through observation and osmosis.

From New York Times

Pearson said his activism and oratory came partly “through osmosis” — from his mother, an English teacher, and his father, a preacher — as he “grew up financially poor, but spiritually rich.”

From Seattle Times

Then came reverse osmosis, a process with overtones of seventh-grade biology, which made another kind of substandard beer.

From Washington Post