absorbing
Example Sentences
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For thousands of years, they say, these animals hunted for their meals and consumed their prey whole, absorbing the carcasses’ unadulterated nutrients.
They warm buildings by absorbing and amplifying heat from the air, ground, or water.
From BBC
“I’m absorbing,” said the voice under the book.
From Literature
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Gold is absorbing risk that markets are no longer confident can be diversified away.
From MarketWatch
Perhaps less familiar to most readers but no less absorbing is the book’s treatment of colonial Spanish missionaries’ encounter with Aztec rituals.
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