absorption
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Within 30 fs, its reflectance spectrum shifted dramatically and developed features linked to the appearance of a new optical absorption band.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
In a recent study, Caballero finds that instead of investors accepting lower yields because Treasurys are so desirable, they are demanding higher yields; the safety premium has become an absorption premium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
But today’s 40% offers real income, alongside real shock absorption to shaky equity markets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
It occurs when two colors of light send the semiconductor through different absorption pathways that ultimately lead to the same final state.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
The opposite was true: they seemed to talk only to heighten their anticipation of the next bite, and when the next bite came, their faces took on a look of utter absorption.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
Most of them were of Saxon origin, although some were the product of absorptions or delimitations which took place in later centuries.
From The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg
Vocabulary lists containing absorption
Chemistry - Introductory
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Photosynthesis - Middle School
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Chemistry - High School
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