absorption
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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
Chow thinks Tenaga absorption of 120 million ringgit-150 million ringgit in fuel-adjustment charges to be a one-off cost, though the precedent could weigh on sentiment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Olbers’s counterargument was that the light from distant stars would be dimmed by absorption by intervening matter.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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
Artificial gum, 1 19.70 10.98 9.00 Artificial gum, 2 13.70 8.05 23.50 Starch 9.43 100.00 None The baryta absorptions seem to be chiefly due to the quantity of starch present in the composition: Sample.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing absorption
Chemistry - Introductory
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Chemistry - High School
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