31.   The infant had been on her lap when the grenades exploded, and she considered it fortunate that her arm had absorbed the shock.

32.   The lights went down before I could absorb the shock.

33.   The product is a set of three weekly injections that lubricate the area inside the knee, helping it absorb shock and restoring its natural functioning.

34.   The structural features of the mechanism correct small misalignments of the two spacecraft and absorb the shock of the contact.

35.   The wooden handle absorbs shocks better.

36.   There are subtle and not-so-subtle insights into the way people tried to absorb the shock.

37.   This time investors were better prepared to absorb the shock.

38.   Those can be more precisely tuned to absorb shocks than foam-based shoes at different points along the foot.

39.   Watching the seemingly impossible picture of the towers on fire and then collapsing again and again helped people absorb the shock, and made the unreal real.

40.   When a meteoroid strikes, the shield absorbs the shock of the impact and the resulting fragments and vapor dissipate benignly between the bumper and vehicle.