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absorption

[ab-sawrp-shuhn, -zawrp-] / æbˈsɔrp ʃən, -ˈzɔrp- /




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In a recent study, Caballero finds that instead of investors accepting lower yields because Treasurys are so desirable, they are demanding higher yields; the safety premium has become an absorption premium.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

But today’s 40% offers real income, alongside real shock absorption to shaky equity markets.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

It occurs when two colors of light send the semiconductor through different absorption pathways that ultimately lead to the same final state.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

In this case, the light itself affects the same silver atoms responsible for producing the dark absorption lines.

From Science Daily Jul. 25, 2026

They loved their jobs, and they saw their own absorption reflected back at them in Katherines questions and her interest that went so far beyond just running the numbers.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Organic growth was 10%, of which 4% was same clinic growth and 6% from clinic absorptions.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 24, 2026

A record of fascinations is at risk of careening into self-indulgence, but “Affinities” is also a record of absorptions, both Dillon’s and those of the artists he loves.

From Washington Post Apr. 20, 2023

These epithelia are active in the secretion and absorptions of molecules.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

Richard Prince, Sherrie Levine and other “re-photographers” delighted and outraged viewers with their canny absorptions of other artists’ work.

From New York Times Oct. 7, 2010

Despite these absorptions Mrs. Gwynn managed to find leisure to read aloud to Judge Roscoe his favorite old novels, and essays, and dull antiquated histories.

From The Storm Centre by Mary Noailles Murfree




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