absorb
Example Sentences
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The insurance trade group projects drivers and the industry may have to absorb between $16 billion and $31 billion in extra claims costs over the next 12 months.
From MarketWatch
Should they do so, it would mean absorbing the largest amount of dead money for any single player ever.
But many say the scheme's durability also underscores a deeper structural problem: India's chronic inability to generate enough non-farm jobs to absorb surplus rural labour.
From BBC
Mr. Puryear absorbed Scandinavian principles of design while studying printmaking at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm.
China now absorbs virtually no new foreign capital.
From Barron's
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