absorbed

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I yelled to him three times, but my voice was absorbed into the horde.

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She had been so absorbed, she had forgotten the time.

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The term conveyed the political fear, so potent among the Antifederalist critics of the constitutional settlement of 1788, that the states would be absorbed by the new federal government.

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Ma looked up from the table, where she’d been absorbed in her embroidery.

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In very little time, he became almost as absorbed in the Bible and “the Church” as he was in chess.

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