absorb
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They should consider building diversified portfolios to absorb them, said Gordon.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Riverside has less room to absorb that risk, Engelschall said, and it cut international first-year admits by 3%.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Across the UK, solid brick homes like theirs quietly absorb heat the way they have for decades.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
As water molecules absorb microwave energy, they move more rapidly and generate additional vapor.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
Waiting by the White House entrance was a large, heavy wagon equipped with a platform and bed springs to absorb the jolts as the wagon drove to the train station.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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Its open crumb absorbs just enough sauce to become more flavorful as it sits, while the soft crust remains easy to eat on a towel without showering your lap in shards.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Warmer air absorbs more water, drying out vegetation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Protecting the Amazon is crucial to combat climate change, since its dense vegetation absorbs the greenhouse gases that cause global warming.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
If a surface absorbs heat efficiently from a particular direction or wavelength, it also emits heat the same way.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
In sucking the blood it absorbs also the germs which are contained in it, and thus is infected.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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Using rapid X-ray flashes produced at the European XFEL, the researchers followed changes at specific atoms as the molecule released and redistributed the absorbed energy.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
“The oil market remains reliant on a shrinking set of buffers that have absorbed the impact of Middle East supply disruption.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Worse, burned trees release the carbon they were storing, then destroy other plant life that could keep that carbon absorbed.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026
I knew some of them, yet I never really absorbed them until I decided to make Chapter One my gustatory church for the Cup and watch as many games there as possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Still, my life remained absorbed by school and play and chores, running to the bakery to buy a loaf of bread or to the cobbler to pick up shoes that had been mended.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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It would also avoid adding unnecessary pressure to an economy already absorbing higher energy costs and multi-decade-high Treasury yields.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Large language models are capable of absorbing and processing massive quantities of linguistic information.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
When the MPS was disrupted, the neurons began absorbing material much faster.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
She never finished high school, but compensated for her incomplete education by devouring books and absorbing ideas.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
They learn the value of education by absorbing the laws and traditions of the tribe.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
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