absorbing
adjective
ab·sorb·ing
əb-ˈsȯr-biŋ 
-ˈzȯr-
: fully taking one's attention : engrossing
an absorbing novel
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shell collecting can be so absorbing that you don't notice the tide coming in
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Unlike standard contact lenses, these incorporate light-responsive or light-absorbing compounds into the lens material itself.
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Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 June 2026
Our editors and critics choose the most captivating, notable, brilliant, surprising, absorbing, weird, thought-provoking, and talked-about books.
—Namara Smith, New Yorker, 10 June 2026
Those sorts of unexpected shifts are what make Vile’s brand of self-absorption so uniquely absorbing after all these years, even as Philadelphia leans into his familiar formula of ’70s-Neil ditch-digging filtered through ’80s-Springsteen production and stretched across ’90s-CD sprawl.
—Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 4 June 2026
Minor distractions notwithstanding, this hypnotically absorbing drama is acted with enormous skill.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
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Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 June 2026
Our editors and critics choose the most captivating, notable, brilliant, surprising, absorbing, weird, thought-provoking, and talked-about books.
—Namara Smith, New Yorker, 10 June 2026
Those sorts of unexpected shifts are what make Vile’s brand of self-absorption so uniquely absorbing after all these years, even as Philadelphia leans into his familiar formula of ’70s-Neil ditch-digging filtered through ’80s-Springsteen production and stretched across ’90s-CD sprawl.
—Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 4 June 2026
Minor distractions notwithstanding, this hypnotically absorbing drama is acted with enormous skill.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for absorbing
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“Absorbing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/absorbing. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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