osmosis
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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
I had gravitated to the color like a moth to light, seeking the dopamine hit of its glow, as if by osmosis I could absorb and become it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 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
Do books perform some kind of magical osmosis on a child’s brain?
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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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