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
In this case, the light itself affects the same silver atoms responsible for producing the dark absorption lines.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
Others develop autoimmune gastritis, in which the immune system damages stomach cells involved in producing acid and intrinsic factor, the protein needed for vitamin B12 absorption.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
I think she could tolerate another woman, but not this complete absorption in something she can’t follow.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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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
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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