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absorbing

adjective as in holding one's attention

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Half a world away, Brenton Tarrant had been absorbing similar ideas and decided to act on them.

From Salon

The hills play an important role in helping to protect the environment, with peatlands throughout them absorbing and storing carbon.

From BBC

TV news organizations are still absorbing what Trump’s return will mean to them.

When he was young and amid the legends of the day, Jones said he would “sit down, shut up and listen,” silently absorbing lessons he realized he couldn’t possibly get anywhere else.

The French Senegalese filmmaker returns with a rich and absorbing exploration of the specter of colonialism that continues the enthralling, otherworldly quality of her 2019 breakthrough film, “Atlantics.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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