absorption
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And, he warns, it won’t just be 18 basis points each year — because absorption costs are convex, this depletion will accelerate if debt continues to outpace financial capacity.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
The phrase he uses is absorption premium, the financing term on one dollar of debt.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
In a recent study, Caballero finds that instead of investors accepting lower yields because Treasurys are so desirable, they are demanding higher yields; the safety premium has become an absorption premium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Earlier technologies typically required light to hit the material at very steep angles to achieve similar effects, reducing both absorption and radiation efficiency compared with normal incidence.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
With peaceful absorption Biff settled down to the details of the newspaper before him.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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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
In two such flowers as the primrose and the violet, where the absorptions, to judge by the colours, are almost complementary, are the chemically active rays the same?
From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by John Tyndall
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Chemistry - Introductory
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Photosynthesis - Middle School
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Chemistry - High School
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