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I began and finished story number 60 today, a flash fiction story called The Absorbent Man, and I sent it off to an editor.
The Big 6-Oh Matthew Sanborn Smith 2008
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Absorbent materials such as ceiling tiles & carpet that become moldy may have to be replaced.
Leo Galland, M.D.: Hidden Toxins In Your Workplace M.D. Leo Galland 2011
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Absorbent materials such as ceiling tiles & carpet that become moldy may have to be replaced.
Leo Galland, M.D.: Hidden Toxins In Your Workplace M.D. Leo Galland 2011
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Only unlike WikiLeaks' other dabblings in lady parts--which have branded Assange everything from a creep to a rapist--apparently this one, for Butterfly Extra-Absorbent Sanitary Napkins, has yet to offend.
Disgrasian: What Is It About WikiLeaks And Lady Parts? Disgrasian 2010
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Absorbent Materials is well on its way to making Obsorb commercially available.
Sponge-Like “Swelling Glass” Absorbs Toxins in Water | Inhabitat 2010
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Absorbent boom soaked through on one side that must be turned or swapped out.
Gulf Oil Spill 'Blob' Changes But Never Vanishes, Presents Ongoing Battle For U.S. 2010
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Absorbent booms on the Jordan River have been capturing traces of oil, and workers were seen digging up oil-soaked soil Wednesday and sucking up residual oil from Red Butte Creek near the spill site.
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Only unlike WikiLeaks' other dabblings in lady parts--which have branded Assange everything from a creep to a rapist--apparently this one, for Butterfly Extra-Absorbent Sanitary Napkins, has yet to offend.
Disgrasian: What Is It About WikiLeaks And Lady Parts? Disgrasian 2010
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He wrote up the case of seven such cadavers and had his paper, “On Some Morbid Appearances of the Absorbent Glands and Spleen,” presented to the Medical and Chirurgical Society.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Hodgkin, “On Some Morbid Appearances of the Absorbent Glands and Spleen,” Medico-Chirurgical Transactions 17 1832: 68–114.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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