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absorb

[ab-sawrb, -zawrb] / æbˈsɔrb, -ˈzɔrb /




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At the Interior Ministry, which oversees policing, pensions absorb 30% of total departmental spending.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

"User funds remain safe. Binance will absorb the financial impact of the stolen funds, not our users," it said on X.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

“Binance will absorb the financial impact of the stolen funds, not our users,” the company said Sunday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

These defects, called dislocations, allow layers of atoms to shift relative to one another, helping the material absorb stress without breaking.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

“Perhaps you could absorb the material,” he said, but then he hung his old gray head.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Fresh snow reflects much of the sunlight that reaches it, while darker, exposed ice absorbs more solar energy.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

“A great CFO evaluates risks alongside the CEO, makes clear decisions, owns those decisions, absorbs operational risk for the team, and pivots decisively when circumstances require.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

But genuinely funny moments are rare, badly outnumbered by done-to-death musings regarding the mysteries of being alive and torturous melodramatic moments in which Klara dully absorbs the severity of Josie’s illness and Chrissy’s sorrow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

When we see Ho-seok scolded at a grueling new job for endangering himself, he mutely absorbs it and shuffles to the side.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

“They say black absorbs all color. It blots and consumes it and gives us nothing back. That’s wrong, don’t you think?”

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat

Plants absorbed it from the atmosphere relatively recently, meaning it is already circulating through the natural carbon cycle.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

Only once the soil is wet, does it start to be properly absorbed by the deeper groundwater stores.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Investors absorbed a steady deluge of high-quality debt issued by the big AI “hyperscalers” in 2026.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

While public spending looks generous, a substantial portion is absorbed by historic liabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

I jab a spoon in my cereal, which has absorbed so much milk that the pieces look like bloated life jackets bobbing in a speckled ocean.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

With its harmonically lush score and emotionally raw libretto, “The Mothers of Kherson,” though frequently absorbing, is no “Guernica” in sound.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

“You Can See Everything” is an absorbing study of public presentation and private doubts, a documentary that asks more questions than it answers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

"The difference here is, the thing absorbing matter is not a tiny black hole but a star, which is relatively big in size," Burdge explains.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

"The reason why all solar cells are black, and increasingly the whole panel is now black, is because black is the best absorbing colour."

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

For the population as a whole, we must be more concerned with the delayed effects of absorbing small amounts of the pesticides that invisibly contaminate our world.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson


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