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Absorb in sentence

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So babies absorb the statistics of the language and it changes their brains; it changes them from the citizens of the world to the culture-bound listeners that we are.
So if I was to walk outside in the rain wearing this dress today, I would immediately start to absorb huge amounts of water.
It stands to reason that we, existing in this world, should in the course of our lives absorb intuitively those relationships.
And so actually it allows for an intense emotional exchange, but is serves to absorb the specificity of the words that are delivered.
And the atoms themselves are quite violent, but if you fire lasers that are precisely tuned to the right frequency, an atom will briefly absorb those photons and tend to slow down.
In the case of the capture spiral, it needs to be so stretchy to absorb the impact of flying prey.
But by having really, really stretchy capture spiral silk, the web is actually able to absorb the impact of that intercepted prey.
There's so much we can absorb.
And he showed that gasses such as CO2 absorb heat, thus acting like a blanket warming Earth's surface.
Without trees, the country can't absorb heavy rains and massive flooding, as a result.
It's hard enough to learn to get the skills, try to learn all the material you have to absorb at any task you're taking on.
They can save lives because this stuff can absorb up to 12 times as much crash energy per pound as steel.
But if we're going with the flow, if we pay attention to natural patterns instead of trying to be strong, but if you're going with the flow, we may absorb a lot of environmental noises, so the wave energy, to actually save some energy to move forward.
So I'm going to just let it run, so you kind of absorb this sort of thing, and I'll describe my sort of reactions when I was looking at it for the very first time.
The atmosphere and the molecules in it absorb some of that heat and send it back.
Our atmosphere doesn't absorb all of that heat.
They help absorb anthrax that would otherwise spread and cause huge livestock losses and diseases in other animals.
All of that grass is now covering the soil as dung, urine and litter or mulch, as every one of the gardeners amongst you would understand, and that soil is ready to absorb and hold the rain, to store carbon, and to break down methane.
More water comes down, the deforested areas, here in the Tarai, will be unable to absorb the effluent, because trees are like straws that suck up the extra seasonal water.
And curious to see if any of them made any noise, I dropped a hydrophone, an underwater microphone covered in rubber, down the mouth part, and immediately the critter began to absorb the microphone into its belly, and the tentacles were searching out of the surface for something of nutritional value.
The fear expression, for instance, could directly improve survival in potentially dangerous situations by letting our eyes absorb more light and our lungs take in more air, preparing us to fight or flee.
The best assumption, and one of the best guesses in this stuff, is that this stuff comes out of this stuff, that these things absorb sunlight, rot under pressure for millions of years, and you get these black rivers.
About two and a half billion years ago, some of these ancient ancestors of Prochlorococcus evolved so that they could use solar energy and absorb it and split water into its component parts of oxygen and hydrogen.
A laser beam aimed at the middle of the chamber is tuned to just the right frequency that an atom moving towards it will absorb a photon of the laser beam and slow down.
They absorb their surroundings in a different way, and we need to be able to educate them in a way that serves them best.
So we will absorb technology as part of us.
Technology will never absorb us.
And the thing I realized that really blew my mind is, almost everything we think we know about addiction is wrong, and if we start to absorb the new evidence about addiction, I think we're going to have to change a lot more than our drug policies.
Next, we designed an acoustic chair, a chair that would be at once structural, comfortable and would also absorb sound.
White objects reflect all colors of light, while black things do exactly the opposite and absorb at all frequencies.
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