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osmosis
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  • We were in the school library, and it was like she was able to extract information from the computer by osmosis, practically.†   (source)
  • He's Gone for Over an Hour Between doorbell rings and candy grabs, I roam room to room, sitting in chairs, straightening photos, opening drawers and touching their contents, trying to absorb Lawler by osmosis.†   (source)
  • Now don't ask me how I know all this, I think it's like osmosis—like where you just absorb information without knowing it.†   (source)
  • There was a single window, through which dust particles flowed freely, as if by osmosis.†   (source)
  • Supply books and by a miraculous process of osmosis, the oyster-pickers will become Shakespearean scholars.†   (source)
  • She tossed an osmosis mask at me and donned her own.†   (source)
  • I nod and sip at lukewarm water through the slipstrip of my osmosis mask.†   (source)
  • Siri was grinning under her osmosis mask.†   (source)
  • I wore osmosis gloves with killing trim.†   (source)
  • I nod and sip at lukewarm water through the slipstrip of my osmosis mask.†   (source)
  • Siri did not lift the osmosis mask to answer.†   (source)
  • Any help he gave Claude would only advance his brainless theory of osmosis, but Edgar wasn't sure Claude wouldn't take a wild guess, and he couldn't stand the idea of the dogs being used clumsily.†   (source)
  • Tuk and I huddle in the hot cave of our tent, osmosis masks filtering enough cool oxygen out of the superheated, smoky air to allow us to breathe.†   (source)
  • They wore caps and osmosis masks.†   (source)
  • Tuk and I huddle in the hot cave of our tent, osmosis masks filtering enough c°°! oxygen out of the superheated, smoky air to allow us to breathe.†   (source)
  • I absorb by osmosis.†   (source)
  • It seemed that he had invaded her life by osmosis: she'd find his shirt mixed in with her laundry; she'd smell his shampoo on her pillowcase; she would pick up the phone, thinking to call him, and he'd already be on the line.†   (source)
  • It has the twenty-ninth and thirtieth stories of the McGurk Building, and the roof is devoted to its animal house and to tiled walks along which (above a world of stenographers and bookkeepers and earnest gentlemen who desire to sell Better-bilt Garments to the golden dons of the Argentine) saunter rapt scientists dreaming of osmosis in Spirogyra.†   (source)
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