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Motorist Sue Willis said the rising cost of filling up was becoming increasingly difficult for households to absorb.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

It started appearing in my parents’ pantry in Costco two-packs, usually beside gigantic cases of bottled water, enough paper towels to absorb a malfunctioning sprinkler system and gallon-sized jugs of olive oil.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

"You would assume that such an impact would have shattered Phobos, unless it has a very low homogeneous density, like a sponge that can absorb that kind of impact," says Haser.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

For the non-Korean speakers in the audience the production can be a bit challenging to absorb, at least at first.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The audience can’t absorb the news right away.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

The Mediterranean Sea absorbs heat during summer, increasing evaporation and contributing to heavier rainfall when storms develop.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

They have served as "a buffer that absorbs bad years so that a single drought or a single dry season does not translate directly into a water crisis", she told reporters.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

These include how efficiently it absorbs light, how concentrated it must be, where it is distributed in the atmosphere, and whether it can realistically exist within the observed range of cloud-particle sizes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

“It seems elitist maybe,” Flanders added, but the small island absorbs a “crush” of people in the summer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Perhaps the thick soft bark absorbs sound and creates a silence.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

After drinking a cup of coffee, it is absorbed into the bloodstream, where it quickly reaches the brain.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

“Ultimately,” he said, “the losses must still be absorbed somewhere in the economy through higher taxes, lower returns to households … or some combination of these.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

When these transport systems are impaired, less dietary oxalate is absorbed.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

More than 90 percent of excess heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions has been absorbed by the oceans, sparing land from warming but at severe cost to marine life, reefs and coastal communities.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

I jab a spoon in my cereal, which has absorbed so much milk that the pieces look like bloated life jackets bobbing in a speckled ocean.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

AI is increasingly absorbing repetitive, lower-level tasks such as alert triage, log review and data enrichment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

One possible class of substances capable of such strong absorption is highly absorbing conjugated organic molecules.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

AI adoption, and the efficiencies and productivity gains it promises, may provide the U.S. with a plausible path to absorbing higher interest-rate costs.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Now, like many Iranian students dreaming of a future elsewhere, she is scrambling to find another way to take it, while absorbing the new exam fee and hefty travel costs.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

The robot felt her body absorbing the sun’s energy.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown