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  • noun Plural form of absorber.

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  • Sounds pretty, sounds like amor, sounds like love -- shock absorbers, it's the Spanish word for shocks.

    Helping The Needy 2007

  • Sounds pretty, sounds like amor, sounds like love -- shock absorbers, it's the Spanish word for shocks.

    Helping The Needy 2007

  • The main absorbers of infrared in the atmosphere are water vapor and clouds.

    Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer 2006

  • At those wavelengths, hydrogen and methane are strong absorbers, meaning they block the light coming from deep down in Jupiter's atmosphere.

    Signs of the Times 2008

  • Dual A-arm with gas-charged shock absorbers, (7.5)

    Quad 2009 ATV Buyers Guide 2009

  • They were even specially produced for a college football team to be used as sweat absorbers.

    Original Shirt | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Not sure how you simulate short term g-load peaks that you would see in the Ares I - is the drop tower at Glen big enough for a seat with shock absorbers???

    Hey JSC: ARC Has A Centrifuge You Can Use (update) - NASA Watch 2009

  • The resilience of the U.S. economy, which rebounded from wars, terror attacks and a crash in tech stocks in the past quarter century, has been weakened in the aftermath of the housing bust, and shock absorbers that cushioned blows in the past are no longer working.

    Economy Losing Its Cushion Jon Hilsenrath 2011

  • Then I stand up and squat over it, bending my legs for balance, surfing with the rock and roll of the truck's shock absorbers.

    Dakota Roger Weaver 2011

  • The Sport model comes in Lime Green and upgrades to adjustable preload, compression, and rebound piggyback shock absorbers, and cast aluminum wheels.

    Quad 2009 ATV Buyers Guide 2009

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