osmosis
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Their music was so good and you start singing the lyrics and there’s an osmosis effect of positivity that gets you.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
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
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
Do books perform some kind of magical osmosis on a child’s brain?
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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