Example Sentences

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We’re also talking about a set of cultural expectations that many of us have absorbed, often without realizing it.

From Salon • May 5, 2026

Investors have absorbed a steady trickle of unsettling headlines ever since.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 14, 2026

Thousands of Angelenos and Americans have absorbed the same and worse losses every day of the last year.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2026

But China’s independent refiners have absorbed most of the sanctioned oil volumes in recent years from exporters like Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.

From Barron's • Oct. 28, 2025

Afterward, over breakfast, my freshly washed hair must have absorbed the smoke from the fire pit.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau