absorbed
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Harvard’s Pricing Lab, which Mr. Trump cited in these pages as proof that foreigners pay at least 80% of the tariffs, actually found consumers bearing up to 43%, “with the rest absorbed by U.S. firms.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Others are interested in smaller carbon footprints from using wood, which stores carbon dioxide absorbed by trees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
The additional greenhouse gases being added to the atmosphere have trapped additional heat and about 90% of that has been absorbed by the oceans.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Some of her duties were reportedly absorbed by Robert Port, a veteran documentary filmmaker with no PR experience whose own hiring was shrouded in secrecy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
Had Vergil had an opportunity to read Proclus, some of this might have made its way into his text, but it is unlikely that he would have absorbed the concept of discovery.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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