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Discover LudwigThe phrase "absorb ourselves" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to immersing oneself deeply in an activity, thought, or experience.
Example: "As we read the novel, we began to absorb ourselves in the rich world the author created."
Alternatives: "immerse ourselves" or "engage ourselves".
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This is actually our natural self, yet to be selfless in this dog-eat-dog world seems so unnatural, because we choose to absorb ourselves in the schemes of our false ego.
Perhaps it's a reflection of our general preference to check out, to tend to our jam-packed to-do lists, to snack on brain-fogging foods, to shop 'til we drop, to watch outrageous amounts of television or to absorb ourselves in social media.
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We already avoid the M6 because the toll costs drivers £10 a time – our customers won't pay extra just because we want to use a toll road and we can't afford to absorb it ourselves".
Our generation, the baby boomers, did not generate much history, we were so absorbed in ourselves.
"Rates at our sites in central London could double, yet, to remain competitive with international corporates, we have to absorb this cost ourselves.
This is a profound ambivalence: we want to absorb otherness into ourselves, and we want to cast it out of our experience altogether.
"We can't pass on that sort of price rise to our customers, so we've been forced to absorb most of it ourselves," said Danzo Yamamoto, manager of Unatetsu, one of central Tokyo's best-known eel restaurants.
After a while, Storr says, this rational response to economic pressures became instinctive habit: "Neoliberalism beams at us from many corners of our culture and we absorb it back into ourselves like radiation".
While growing up is something we all eventually have to do, or at least attempt to do, this has been the time in our lives to find ourselves and absorb all we need to know before we exit campus.
Yet all the Stoic arguments are hard to absorb in that part of ourselves that matters.
However, there is debate over how much of the chemicals our brain actually absorbs, and gorging ourselves on a family-sized Dairy Milk to make up the difference could actually be a passion-killer.
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