absorb

Example Sentences

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The report envisioned an economy in 2028 where AI is successful enough to cause widespread white-collar job destruction, without new industries emerging to absorb displaced workers.

From MarketWatch

These properties make metal-organic frameworks an ideal photoresist—that chemical layer on a silicon wafer that absorbs light to create the etched pattern of transistors and connections.

From The Wall Street Journal

Photocatalysts are materials that absorb light and use that energy to drive chemical reactions.

From Science Daily

"It's irrelevant really. It's how the players react to that. If they absorb it and it affects them, then that's a negative. But i think our players are robust enough to ignore it."

From BBC

The cooling technology flushes ocean water through the plant to absorb heat and discharges it, killing what the Coastal Commission estimated to be two billion fish each year.

From Los Angeles Times