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absorbing

[ab-sawr-bing, -zawr-] / æbˈsɔr bɪŋ, -ˈzɔr- /


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The exhibition’s most absorbing early pictures are the collective images he created with other Surrealists.

From The Wall Street Journal

After all, is there anything more personal than absorbing a book for days at a time while the laundry stays undone and dishes pile high in the sink?

From Los Angeles Times

He spent time in Ghana absorbing highlife's structure, horn phrasing, and dance-oriented arrangements before fusing it with jazz, funk, the rhythms of his own Yoruba people, and political storytelling.

From BBC

For thousands of years, they say, these animals hunted for their meals and consumed their prey whole, absorbing the carcasses’ unadulterated nutrients.

From The Wall Street Journal

They warm buildings by absorbing and amplifying heat from the air, ground, or water.

From BBC