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sink in





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Small said the significance did not sink in for a couple of days.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

Let that ratio sink in: For every dollar Apple spent imagining the future, it spent nearly four dollars buying back its own past.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026

Back in Iran, a sense of the inevitable had begun to sink in for many there.

From Barron's • Apr. 12, 2026

A few days later the magnitude of the assignment began to sink in.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

It is really starting to sink in that no one is listening to me.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson




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