osmosis
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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
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
I suppose he believes you can cover the administration through osmosis.
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025
I’ve inherited some things through osmosis but, by and large, I didn’t know the first thing about Judaism — even having been bar mitzvahed, having played Jewish characters before.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2024
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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