absorber
Example Sentences
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Cash flow was significantly stronger than expected, due to lower investments, but this only acts as a partial shock absorber to the negative results, they add.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
The economic hierarchy that dominated the past decade—the U.S. as the global engine, China as the main absorber of capital, and emerging markets rising or falling with the commodity cycle—is fading.
From Barron's • Dec. 22, 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
Agroforestry and rewilding could transform the agricultural sector from a major generator to a net absorber of carbon emissions.
From Salon • Dec. 11, 2024
Hermes was now pulling Beck and Watney along, with Vogel's use of the tether acting as a shock absorber.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
Vocabulary lists containing absorber
Nuclear Processes
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Physics - High School
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