osmosis

Example Sentences

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Nowadays, desalinisation is done using seawater reverse osmosis.

From BBC

For one, the alkaloids that taste bitter in eggplants are a bit large and can't simply come out via osmosis when salt is added.

From Salon

And we are not home-schoolers; our patriotic education interacts with what our kids learn in school and pick up through osmosis in our progressive state and city.

From New York Times

My mother taught me to cook almost by osmosis.

From Washington Post

Maybe by then everything will be so ingrained they’ll absorb it through osmosis.

From Seattle Times