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absorption

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




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Weight-loss surgery and some medicines used for diabetes or acid reflux can also reduce absorption.

From Science Daily Jun. 25, 2026

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

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

Whence great heat from the excited capillaries of the skin, large and quick pulsations of the heart, full and hard arteries, with great universal secretions and absorptions.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin




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