absorption
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Combining these two, Caballero infers that shift from a safety premium to an absorption premium explains about 0.75 percentage points of the roughly 2.5 percentage point rise in yields since 2015.
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 signal contained carbon monoxide absorption lines arranged in a barcode-like sequence, a feature commonly expected in the atmospheres of giant planets.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
Mai appears to understand the principle of absorption.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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
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Chemistry - Introductory
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Photosynthesis - Middle School
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Chemistry - High School
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