absorption
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The trade-off for the shock absorption is that in a deep, sustained downturn, your portfolio will be exposed to more drawdown than a stricter rule would allow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
As on Wall Street, the media’s absorption with Greenspan during his years as Fed chair generated stories and legends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
Orange juice delivers roughly the same sugar as a can of soda, stripped of the fiber found in whole fruit that slows absorption and increases gut motility.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 21, 2026
Taking a cocktail of iron, calcium and magnesium together can reduce absorption rates.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
At first he had hidden behind a great palm; but Henry's absorption with the transparencies was so obvious that at last he stood out in full view.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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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
It consists of an apparatus with two holders, that is to say, so arranged as to put the least liquid possible in contact with the gas produced, and to thus prevent absorptions and losses.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 by Various
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Chemistry - Introductory
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Chemistry - High School
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