Example Sentences

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That's why it's refreshing to hear that two formerly separate streaming services will be combining: according to Variety, HBO Max will be absorbing Discovery+ when WarnerMedia and Discovery merge into Warner Bros.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2022

Coates also made it clear that Tokyo organizers and the Japanese government will be absorbing the billions in added expenses.

From Washington Times • Apr. 16, 2020

But “Under the Sun” will be absorbing and essential to Chatwin’s devotees.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2011

The RFU will be absorbing the 2.5% rise in VAT, which comes into force tomorrow, on tickets sold for Six Nations matches, with the encounter against Italy at Twickenham likely to go on public sale.

From The Guardian • Jan. 3, 2011

In the larger sphere of work to which you say he has been promoted he may find new interests that will be absorbing.

From A Day of Fate by Roe, Edward Payson