absorber
Example Sentences
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Every investor alive has been trained by four decades of falling rates to believe recession means rate cuts, which means that bonds rally, which means a typical 60/40 stock-bond portfolio has a shock absorber.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026
Savers accept lower returns to own risk-free Treasury debt because it usually acts as a shock absorber.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
First, China has turned itself into the world’s oil shock absorber.
From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025
“I noticed that I started to feel really content with packaging my food, sticking them in the oxygen absorber, and then putting them in my bin,” Moffitt said.
From Salon • Jan. 8, 2025
Either in spite, or because, of his silence, I talked incessantly, with my legs crossed, ankle on knee, and constantly using my sock as an absorber for the perspiration on my palm.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
Vocabulary lists containing absorber
Nuclear Processes
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Physics - High School
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