absorbable

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Recent Examples of absorbable Next, doctors performed reconstruction on each twin using absorbable mesh and complex soft tissue and skin coverage with flaps. Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for absorbable
Adjective
  • Mayo said midcap banks as a category are more digestible for mergers.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Trust that what’s meant for you won’t require you to shrink yourself down to a digestible size.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Gummies are another chewable form but are made with a heavy emphasis on tasting good.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • German scientists in the 1920s used heat and pressure to turn gas into liquid or solid hydrocarbons, and a chemist at Sunoco injected oxygen into those solids to create edible fats in the 1930s.
    Megan Sauer, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
  • While the competitors enter as individuals, their goal will be to get on– and stay on– the strongest team by any means necessary, because in this game the bakers must create incredible edible works of art to grow their teams and avoid elimination.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The team says the invention could open the door to safer, more versatile ingestible and implantable medical devices.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Today’s critics note that fluoride is now available in toothpaste, as well as in ingestible drops and tablets like the ones for children that the FDA is working to remove from the marketplace.
    Anna Clark, ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This has prompted scientists to search for less invasive techniques, including in the form of swallowable capsules.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 18 Sep. 2025

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“Absorbable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/absorbable. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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