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"You would assume that such an impact would have shattered Phobos, unless it has a very low homogeneous density, like a sponge that can absorb that kind of impact," says Haser.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

With energy prices remaining elevated, businesses are now less prepared to absorb cost price increases, Bullock added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

In his view, U.S. stocks can absorb a rate hike.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Employees feel valued for turning up regardless of how they are feeling and staff quickly absorb the message if managers praise people for working through illness.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

I stare at him for a minute trying to absorb what he just said.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

They have served as "a buffer that absorbs bad years so that a single drought or a single dry season does not translate directly into a water crisis", she told reporters.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

Soot deposited on snow and ice absorbs more sunlight and accelerates melting.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Propellers were being chiseled from oak, which absorbs radar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Use them in the same year and the deduction absorbs conversion income that would otherwise be taxed at your top rate.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

The truck’s suspension absorbs the worst of the bumps, but it can only do so much.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

After drinking a cup of coffee, it is absorbed into the bloodstream, where it quickly reaches the brain.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The precious metals strategist expects the market to have largely absorbed rate tightening expectations and place greater weight on other reasons to buy gold, such as the asset’s diversification appeal and intact official-sector buying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

When these transport systems are impaired, less dietary oxalate is absorbed.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

More than 90 percent of excess heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions has been absorbed by the oceans, sparing land from warming but at severe cost to marine life, reefs and coastal communities.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

When Valya Kravchenko navigated for Valentin, she’d grow absorbed in her map and suddenly hear him ask, “Where is Melashvili? Where is Spitsina, Yegorova, Matyukhina, Kirillova, Fedotova?”

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

One possible class of substances capable of such strong absorption is highly absorbing conjugated organic molecules.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

AI adoption, and the efficiencies and productivity gains it promises, may provide the U.S. with a plausible path to absorbing higher interest-rate costs.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Now, like many Iranian students dreaming of a future elsewhere, she is scrambling to find another way to take it, while absorbing the new exam fee and hefty travel costs.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

For a long time, the Earth has been absorbing more energy than it loses.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

They worked all day, and all day he was filled with an intense, absorbing happiness.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley