absorb

Example Sentences

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Then came a rarity from someone usually happy to absorb contact as the Bruins drove for a go-ahead score.

From Los Angeles Times

Those new lines absorb part of the current 41st District in Riverside County, represented by longstanding Republican Rep. Ken Calvert.

From Los Angeles Times

Direct detection has not been possible because dark matter particles do not interact with electromagnetic force -- meaning they do not absorb, reflect or emit light.

From Science Daily

Late in the game against the Huskies, Iamaleava absorbed a crunching hit and departed with neck spasms, forcing backup Luke Duncan to replace him.

From Los Angeles Times

But the roots of this development, he contends, lie even further back—in the classical texts that early modern thinkers read and absorbed.

From The Wall Street Journal