absorbing
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"Clean energy is absorbing most of the world's new electricity demand, with coal barely growing at all," she said.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
One wing stretches west along the river toward Louisville, absorbing some of its outer suburbs.
From Slate • May 19, 2026
But divorcing a film like this from the times in which we’re absorbing it is short of impossible, no matter how much of an escape it provides for 109 minutes.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
“Kafka was a foreigner everywhere, especially in Prague,” Maïa Hruska writes in her absorbing book, “Kafkaesque,” which receives a fittingly attentive translation from the French by Sam Taylor.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
I brace myself, and we hit the level concrete, the shocks absorbing most of it.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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