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osmosis

[oz-moh-sis, os-] / ɒzˈmoʊ sɪs, ɒs- /
NOUN
absorption
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Even those too young to have any real-time memory of the terrorist attacks have received the trauma by osmosis.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

Their music was so good and you start singing the lyrics and there’s an osmosis effect of positivity that gets you.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 9, 2026

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

And again, he stopped often simply to absorb by osmosis the immense grandeur, loneliness, majesty, and both frail and cruel beauty of his surroundings.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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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