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absorbed

[ab-sawrbd, -zawrbd] / æbˈsɔrbd, -ˈzɔrbd /


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He said he expected prices to keep rising and, while his business had absorbed higher costs so far, he might have to charge customers more.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2026

DirecTV absorbed the losses because Sunday Ticket helped attract and retain satellite subscribers.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

To make that comparison possible, the researchers combined observations of Venus with a radiative-transfer model that tracks how light is repeatedly scattered and absorbed by cloud droplets and atmospheric molecules.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

More than 90 percent of excess heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions has been absorbed by the oceans, sparing land from warming but at severe cost to marine life, reefs and coastal communities.

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

It also helped that I’d already been absorbed into the Space Task Group team, NASA’s first official effort to conquer space.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson




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