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absorb

[ab-sawrb, -zawrb] / æbˈsɔrb, -ˈzɔrb /




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These individuals often lack the financial expertise to evaluate the assets held by these funds, or the means to absorb significant losses from these risky investments.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

The IMF said the global economy had shown a "remarkable capacity to absorb shocks" not just from the current Middle East conflict, but also from the Covid pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Gut bacteria can transform food components that would otherwise pass through the digestive system into molecules that the body can absorb and use for energy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Michigan’s manufacturing supply chains are deeply integrated with Canada, and small businesses especially have borne the tariff brunt since they have less capacity to absorb the costs than larger companies do.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

I hold his gaze and absorb his words while Mom gasps softly behind me.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

Known as DAMM, short for digestion, absorption and microbial metabolism, the model tracks how food moves through the digestive tract, how much energy the body absorbs directly, and how gut microbes process whatever remains.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Bare ice is darker and less reflective than fresh snow, so absorbs more of the Sun's energy.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Bright sea ice reflects much of the Sun's incoming energy, while darker ocean water absorbs more of it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 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

As an electron sits in the vacuum, it occasionally absorbs or spits out one of these particles, such as a photon.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Ten-year Treasury and German Bund yields slid to multiweek lows in early European trade on Thursday as bond investors absorbed higher-than-expected U.S. inflation data that had prompted a temporary but sharp bond selloff on Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

And so it was with a mixture of wonder and dismay that I absorbed three programs at Carnegie Hall late last week, Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Northern Ireland's leaders have not absorbed the implications of a rapidly ageing society and are continuing to "plan for a population from a previous era" the Commissioner for Older People Siobhan Casey has warned.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

The average stock has absorbed more damage from the jump in long rates.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

His wife was under the fern exactly where he’d left her, absorbed in the life of her book.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

Then he threw an out-and-up to Puka Nacua, absorbing a big hit as he released the ball.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

And Brian Mulberry, chief market strategist at Zacks Investment Management, told MarketWatch that absorbing Chipotle would likely require hefty financing at a time when bond yields have risen sharply.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

After absorbing light, the material reaches a higher energy state and can use that energy to drive chemical reactions more rapidly.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

But “The Grapes of Wrath” and “East of Eden”—the latter of which Zoe Kazan has now adapted into a thoroughly absorbing series with an astonishing Florence Pugh—are forbidding tomes, for students and teachers alike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Izzy would be at Mia’s, poring over a contact sheet, trimming prints, absorbing Mia’s attention, making space for Pearl to be elsewhere.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng


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