absorbed
Example Sentences
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Late in the game against the Huskies, Iamaleava absorbed a crunching hit and departed with neck spasms, forcing backup Luke Duncan to replace him.
From Los Angeles Times
But the roots of this development, he contends, lie even further back—in the classical texts that early modern thinkers read and absorbed.
Declaring its mission "accomplished" despite the worsening security situation, Wagner announced its withdrawal from Mali in June this year, with analysts saying that most of its fighters had been absorbed into Africa Corps.
From BBC
At Loyola High he absorbed the Jesuit maxim of being a man for others.
From Los Angeles Times
When two photons strike the particle at the same moment and are absorbed together, they can remove a single electron.
From Science Daily
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