The most common alternative, reverse osmosis, is cheaper, but it 's still pricey and energy-intensive. From Wordnik.com. [High-Tech Cures for Water Shortages] Reference
The object of the process called osmosis is to carry off these salts. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883] Reference
Now, there is a process known as reverse osmosis, which is very good typically at getting rid of almost all impurities. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2008] Reference
But they are suffering from "osmosis," from simply spending too much time around investment bankers and the like. From Wordnik.com. [Obama’s Nobel Headache] Reference
I hope for some kind of osmosis to take place where book-knowledge transfers itself into my waiting brain while I am asleep. From Wordnik.com. [Bookguilt] Reference
But through some kind of osmosis, I remember the sense of revelation to him of this discovery re ulcers – was it in the 1960s or 70s?. From Wordnik.com. [Crichton at Senate EPW Committee « Climate Audit] Reference
Even though I never asked ... call it "osmosis" ... it just worked out that way?. From Wordnik.com. [News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]
Gaffney argued that Sarah Palin has learned foreign policy through "osmosis," by living in Alaska. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
Somewhere or other he'd picked up the word "osmosis," and seemed to have some glimmering of its meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Widdershins] Reference
The word "osmosis" can be used in discussion instead of having to explain what it is every time someone wants to refer to it. From Wordnik.com. [Allan R. Bevere] Reference
"osmosis," to solve any minor cultural problems created by heavy immigration. From Wordnik.com. [VDARE.com: Blog Articles] Reference
The passengers seem to walk directly into the rim wall, as if a kind of osmosis process were being used. ". From Wordnik.com. [Ringworld]
I did pick up a couple of things, sort of by osmosis. From Wordnik.com. [What my parents taught me about money, #4] Reference
The force of osmosis has no special connection with life. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity] Reference
Did you set out to do this or did it just kind of come by osmosis?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 19, 2002] Reference
And hopefully - unfortunately, there's not a - no osmosis is possible. From Wordnik.com. [Op-Ed: Iraq Needs A Long-Term U.S. Presence] Reference
And this way she can talk first to her supporters, and by osmosis to us. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2007] Reference
I say, are these books performing some kind of magic osmosis on the brain?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 15, 2005] Reference
LEVS: And when you're at CNN Center, you get really knowledgeable by osmosis. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2009] Reference
Somehow it feels politically timely, as if you learning something by osmosis. From Wordnik.com. [Is Jazz Back?] Reference
I have as much attitude toward it as I do toward osmosis or toward peristalsis. From Wordnik.com. [Card Trick] Reference
Our system seems to expect new immigrants to pick up "the American way" by osmosis. From Wordnik.com. [Terry Kelhawk: Does Free Speech Mean Free to Offend?] Reference
All that information in one hug, transferred osmosis-like through her fleshly tentacle. From Wordnik.com. [Free Time] Reference
LAWRENCE: But in Orange County, state-of-the-art reverse osmosis is just the beginning. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2008] Reference
This process of osmosis lies at the basis of the absorption of food from the alimentary canal. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity] Reference
My wife, who by osmosis knows far more about sports than she wants to, looked completely puzzled. From Wordnik.com. [The Bully-Boy Patriots] Reference
It uses a seven-step reverse osmosis process and it claims to make its water more easily absorbed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 24, 2004] Reference
My older sister was really into Laura Nyro and, you know, I kind of, by osmosis, got into it, too. From Wordnik.com. [Billy Childs and the Lush Jazz of 'Lyric'] Reference
GARCIA: I thought that just because we are Latinos by -- you know, by osmosis, they would be Latinos. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2009] Reference
While some children acquire the literacy skills they need by osmosis, through their everyday experiences, many don't. From Wordnik.com. [The Right Way To Read] Reference
Maybe if I stood next to her and talked to her every day for a while, I could absorb some of her charm and social grace by osmosis. From Wordnik.com. [Office Politics] Reference
In essence, if we strive to be someone who's considered admirable and inspirational, as if by osmosis, authenticity will likely follow. From Wordnik.com. [Malcolm Levene: An Authentic Personal Brand] Reference
Our updated ratings of faucet-mounted, countertop, undersink, reverse-osmosis, and whole-house water filters are available to subscribers. From Wordnik.com. [On World Water Day, don't take water for granted] Reference
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