osmotically

Examples

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• Aquatic animals often face osmotically stressful environments where water and salts must be balanced.

• Even though Gay emigrated as a young child and lived in New York for the rest of her life, she had all sorts of her mother's habitual gestures of speech that I absorbed osmotically, without even knowing that certain phrases or words weren't ordinary American talk.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Then the forward scout, skiniform, osmotically thick-puckered, ceased to warn.

  Academic text (2004)

• They might casually consider the 747 diagram provided to them and learn osmotically how to exit in case of emergency.

  Fiction book (2001)

• This conservation of water, accompanied by the loss of sodium and other osmotically active substances in the urine, corrects concentrated extracellular fluid.

  Academic text (1998)

• They usually diffuse osmotically from regions of poverty or political oppression—sometimes both.

  Academic text (1993)

• But the people thought he was divinity itself - an avatar come down to Earth - and there's an ancient belief in India that if you are in the presence of a great person or of a divinity, you acquire merit simply by, almost osmotically, by being in their presence.

  Ocean to Sky (2019)

• Specifically, it must be determined whether such beliefs and practices have been adopted as a consequence of inductively derived conclusions based upon observations, or whether such beliefs have been osmotically implanted and not subjected to any degree of critical thought.

  Academic text (1990)

• Many organisms that live in osmotically challenging environments such as seawater accumulate low-molecular weight substances within their body fluids to maintain osmotic equilibrium.

  Academic text (1991)

• Plants can absorb water osmotically through their roots from the soil.

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