absorb
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The plans for it to absorb the existing King Khalid International Airport and cover roughly 22 square miles, about the size of Manhattan, with a projected capacity of 120 million passengers by 2030.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
In our study, higher income didn’t necessarily equate to a higher capacity to absorb treatment costs and lowered anxiety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
"Their economic impact has so far been limited, but the costs of climate change are rising and future shocks may be harder to absorb," she wrote.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
"Binance will absorb the financial impact of these stolen funds, not our users," the company said in a statement on Saturday.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
“Won’t it be enriching to absorb the work of such masters, and there are so many there to be seen.”
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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Military spending now absorbs about 8% of economic output, roughly double its prewar share, Flug estimated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Investors will be looking to see whether Binance absorbs losses without passing onto customers, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Gas absorbs particular wavelengths of light, creating recognizable dips in a galaxy's spectrum.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 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
I showed them a jellyfish that lights up like police flashers when it’s threatened, and another jellyfish that absorbs all the light that surrounds it.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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Kelly Birkett, a personal accountant from Redditch, said: "The £100 is good, but it's not great. It just gets absorbed into everything else families have to pay for, just to get by."
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
This hydrogen formed a kind of cosmic fog that absorbed ultraviolet radiation, preventing that light from traveling freely across the universe.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Yet Indigenous and enslaved African populations did not simply take on these symbols of subjugation; they absorbed and subverted them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Investors absorbed a steady deluge of high-quality debt issued by the big AI “hyperscalers” in 2026.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
When the cars emptied, the onlookers were absorbed into the crowd.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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Two intrepid teens head into the unknown on an absorbing, densely detailed rescue mission — not for the especially young — that stuns at every turn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
But absorbing the costs of Meta’s AI is a different story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The charity, which redistributes surplus food to about 70 organisations across the region, said it was facing the challenge of meeting growing demand while absorbing higher operating costs.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 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
Jules touched it with the tip of her finger, absorbing the sound into her skin.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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