absorbed
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Remove some cloud and more sunlight reaches the sea, where much of it is absorbed as heat.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Defense planners are also recasting the country’s security priorities to prepare Japan for a prolonged defense in the event of any conflict, a lesson absorbed from the drawn-out war in Ukraine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
What she absorbed instead, her mother, Jessica Leffler, said, was that she was too much: too dramatic, difficult, strange.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
That porous structure would have absorbed and weakened some of the energy from the collision, helping Deimos survive the impact.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
He’d been so absorbed in flying that he’d even forgotten to be worried.
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
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