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  • adjective Not having been absorbed.

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un- +‎ absorbed

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Examples

  • Far from separate, these "two worlds of life and death" co-exist, death being the unabsorbed shadow side of life, which, as in Jung's psychology, must as the process of individuation be absorbed as it can be absorbed.

    Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology 2008

  • The psychic action of Shelley's lyrical drama is less Prometheus's absorption of Jupiter as his shadow than it is his release from Jupiter, who, as unabsorbed energy, falls back into the "Abysm," which, as the "deep truth," cannot "vomit forth its secrets"

    Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology 2008

  • Because these sugars are in their free forms their absorption is radically increased and you actually absorb far more of them had they been in their natural joined state which would cause a higher percentage of the fructose to pass to the intestine unabsorbed.

    This Sweetener Is Far Worse Than High Fructose Corn Syrup Dr. Joseph Mercola 2010

  • Because these sugars are in their free forms their absorption is radically increased and you actually absorb far more of them had they been in their natural joined state which would cause a higher percentage of the fructose to pass to the intestine unabsorbed.

    Dr. Joseph Mercola: This Sweetener Is Far Worse Than High Fructose Corn Syrup 2010

  • The slime will form quickly leaving some unabsorbed liquid.

    Slime Recipe 2008

  • * I cut most of the vital parts of the brain off and just let the world go by unabsorbed.

    Limited Return 2006

  • * I cut most of the vital parts of the brain off and just let the world go by unabsorbed.

    September 2006 2006

  • All fiber goes through the digestive tract unabsorbed until it reaches the colon where it is acted upon by colonic bacteria (I suppose you could loosely call it fermented) that convert it to short chain fatty acids, one of which is butyrate (a four-carbon fat).

    Resistant starch | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008

  • The bloated incomes of the international elites, unabsorbed by taxation, has inflated the prices of all capital assets without increase in their actual value.

    Keep the WASHINGTON POST or the NEW YORK TIMES for when you can no longer afford toilet rolls 2008

  • Olestra's fat-sugar molecules are so large that they pass out of the body unabsorbed.

    Fats: Know Which Ones are Bad and Which are Good 2008

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