absorb
Example Sentences
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Chief among them is the seeming inability to absorb a blow and come back fighting.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
For instance, chlorine-terminated MXenes absorb strongly in the 14-18 GHz range, while bromine- and iodine-based versions respond to different frequency ranges.
From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026
Steven Mazur has spent the past year figuring out how to absorb about half a million dollars in additional tariffs without dramatically raising prices at his men’s clothing brand, Ash & Erie.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Economists estimate the U.S. needs to add just 50,000 jobs a month, if that, to absorb the new entrants into the labor force.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 2, 2026
Then he gazed down at the wise old face and tried to absorb the enormous and incomprehensible truth: that never again would Dumbledore speak to him, never again could he help...
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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