osmosis

Example Sentences

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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

I suppose he believes you can cover the administration through osmosis.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025

To Sosa, Subsuelo Sundays are often an education by osmosis.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2024

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