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absorption

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




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Although methane absorption varied considerably between the 13 locations, a clear overall pattern emerged.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

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

When the team compared DAMM's predictions with actual measurements from the controlled diet study, the model produced estimates that were closer to the observed calorie absorption than those generated using the conventional Atwater approach.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 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

With the absorption of Europe by Russia and the British Empire by the United States, two of the three existing powers, Eurasia and Oceania, were already effectively in being.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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

Richard Prince, Sherrie Levine and other “re-photographers” delighted and outraged viewers with their canny absorptions of other artists’ work.

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2010

He despised their whole-hearted passion for sports at an age when he was beginning to be interested in less wholesome and far more complex absorptions….

From The Long Trick by Bartimeus


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