osmosis
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That education by osmosis is part of what makes traveling seven to 12 days a month worthwhile as a young dad with a 4-year-old and 9-month-old at home.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
It's via this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will pick up the British traits they wish to instil.
From BBC • Nov. 10, 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
“My grandmother took care of us, so she always had the soaps on, and by osmosis, they seeped into my brain,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 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
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