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absorption

[ab-sawrp-shuhn, -zawrp-] / æbˈsɔrp ʃən, -ˈzɔrp- /




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More job cuts and A.I. demands are expected, and the wholesale absorption of Hulu’s app into the Disney+ interface is still happening.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

My current home is also stocked with multistage, HEPA-filter air purifiers that combine carbon absorption and ionizer technology all around the house, which came in handy during Covid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The absorption lines were "blueshifted" compared with the redshift of the galaxies themselves.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Citi says margins could realistically be negative given fixed-cost absorption, high raw-material headwinds and worse-than-consensus volumes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

But when Brother Tod Clifton came into my office to discuss the street meeting I saw no signs of resentment, but a complete absorption in the strategy of the meeting.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Organic growth was 10%, of which 4% was same clinic growth and 6% from clinic absorptions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

A record of fascinations is at risk of careening into self-indulgence, but “Affinities” is also a record of absorptions, both Dillon’s and those of the artists he loves.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023

These epithelia are active in the secretion and absorptions of molecules.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Their quirky absorptions in, say, physics, baseball stats or investment strategies add enormously to human advancement.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2012

I. Absorbent system evinced by experiments by coloured absorptions in fig-tree and picris; called air-vessels erroneously; spiral structure of absorbent vessels; retrograde motion of them like the throats of cows.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin


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