osmosis

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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

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

Typically, he added, they can be treated using activated carbon and reverse osmosis.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 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