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Haser says survival may have been possible if the moon had an unusually low and relatively uniform density, allowing it to absorb the impact somewhat like a sponge.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

“Demand is also excessive,” said Pelle, who believes the economy is sturdy enough to absorb higher rates.

From MarketWatch ● 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

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

The more I was able to absorb in this process, the more I wanted to absorb.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

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

These include how efficiently it absorbs light, how concentrated it must be, where it is distributed in the atmosphere, and whether it can realistically exist within the observed range of cloud-particle sizes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

When enough of them take their money out, the manager sells bonds to pay them at whatever the market offers that morning, and everyone still in the fund absorbs it.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

In K-capture, the nucleus absorbs one of the two electrons from its innermost electron “shell”— the “K” shell—thereby transforming a nuclear proton into a neutron.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

It has been proposed that health care in the islands would be absorbed by local authorities, though no decisions have been made on this.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

Mr. Wade calls this process of inheritance “catching,” the transmission of a tune without formal notation or instruction, overheard once and absorbed by musicians who may now be little remembered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

One small boy was absorbed in a ball game with a cat with luminescent fur.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

Part of growing as a creative is absorbing more reference materials, especially those outside of your comfort zone.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

For the surviving staff, absorbing the shock and the loss of the attacks meant springing into service.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 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

I took my time, absorbing the things Miss Sadie couldn’t bring herself to tell me.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool