osmosis

Example Sentences

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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

Larry Gagosian sold Basquiat upstairs while De la Huerta was a baby below, and her work sometimes has the effect of childlike depictions of what she learned by osmosis.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2025

I suppose he believes you can cover the administration through osmosis.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 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