osmosis
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Traditional desalination methods such as reverse osmosis and thermal distillation can be expensive and energy intensive.
From Science Daily ● May 31, 2026
So when Swift takes a phone call in the documentary and says, "Baby", the whole theatre erupts - knowing through pop culture osmosis exactly who is on the other end of the line.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
Whether by osmosis or genetics or possibly black magic, Carpenter clearly absorbed his powers from his father, Dr. Howard Carpenter, a classically trained violinist and composer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
People saw Manning not as a player with three collegiate starts to his name, but one who’d absorbed the expertise of uncles Peyton and Eli via osmosis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
And again, he stopped often simply to absorb by osmosis the immense grandeur, loneliness, majesty, and both frail and cruel beauty of his surroundings.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
A sense of humor osmoses from one to the other.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018
Thoreau might have siphoned insight from his surroundings; Bennett’s narrator osmoses into hers completely.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 11, 2016
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