osmosis
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Even those too young to have any real-time memory of the terrorist attacks have received the trauma by osmosis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Traditional desalination methods such as reverse osmosis and thermal distillation can be expensive and energy intensive.
From Science Daily ● May 31, 2026
It's via this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will pick up the British traits they wish to instil.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025
“My grandmother took care of us, so she always had the soaps on, and by osmosis, they seeped into my brain,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2025
Sitting at Robbie’s upright piano, I was quick to pick up the scales—that osmosis thing was real—and I threw myself into filling out the sight-reading work sheets she gave me.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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