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osmosis

[oz-moh-sis, os-] / ɒzˈmoʊ sɪs, ɒs- /
NOUN
absorption
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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

Spending a little time in a grocery store checkout line is all it takes to absorb the highlights of “The Real Housewives” or “Love Island” by osmosis.

From Salon Jan. 15, 2026

It's via this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will pick up the British traits they wish instil.

From BBC Nov. 9, 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

Collins’s approach wasn’t “You must remember this variation of the King’s Indian Defense, which is much stronger than what you played”—rather, he relied on a kind of osmosis.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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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