absorption
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Chow thinks Tenaga absorption of 120 million ringgit-150 million ringgit in fuel-adjustment charges to be a one-off cost, though the precedent could weigh on sentiment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Citi says margins could realistically be negative given fixed-cost absorption, high raw-material headwinds and worse-than-consensus volumes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
For molecules with absorption strengths similar to efficient porphyrinoid pigments, the required concentration would be roughly 10 grams per liter.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
They then converted the astronomical measurements into something commonly used in laboratory UV-visible spectroscopy: the absorption coefficient of the liquid making up the cloud droplets.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
But by some old, standing arrangement with her psyche, she elected to feel guilty for having seen it, caught it, and sentenced herself to listen to Lane’s ensuing conversation with a special semblance of absorption.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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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
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
While their minds are yet alive with facts and figures, time always effaces concrete absorptions.
From The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces by William Elmer Bachman
Vocabulary lists containing absorption
Chemistry - Introductory
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Photosynthesis - Middle School
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Chemistry - High School
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