absorber

Example Sentences

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For the past year, falling gasoline prices have acted as a shock absorber, offsetting an 11% year-over-year increase in the price of natural gas and 5% rise in electricity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

First, China has turned itself into the world’s oil shock absorber.

From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025

“In a perfect world,” Velis said, the SRF would be the shock absorber, where you are lending against good collateral to banks at the auction rate.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 13, 2025

Fixing our food system could reduce the public and private costs of ill health, enhance farmers' incomes, reduce food import dependence, and transform agriculture from a net emitter to a net absorber of carbon emissions.

From Salon • Dec. 11, 2024

But the only one who accepted his answer was Little Lou, who was like that, an absorber.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen