How to Use osmotic in a Sentence

osmotic

adjective
  • For coastal cities and island nations, osmotic power offers something unique.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • These were used in the world’s first fully functioning osmotic power plant in Denmark.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Aug. 2025
  • And while osmotic power may never match the scale of solar or offshore wind, parity isn’t required for impact.
    — New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Small molecules that limit ice damage and osmotic stress accumulate in some of the snake’s tissues.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Take over-the-counter medicines like fiber supplements, stool softeners, lubricants, stimulants, or osmotic agents.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Japan has brought its first osmotic power plant online in Fukuoka, marking the world’s second such facility and the first in Asia.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The downside is that excess salt disrupts the body’s fluid balance promoting water retention known as osmotic edema, which can cause puffiness in the face and hands.
    — Anita Bhagwandas, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 May 2024
  • So while osmotic power has potential, our current technology limits what can be extracted.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Those stronger gradients boost efficiency and grounds osmotic generation in existing systems rather than the lab.
    — New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
  • This is the quiet promise of osmotic energy, a renewable energy source generated where river meets ocean.
    — New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Lower temperatures can inhibit feeding, swimming and osmotic abilities in warm-water fish leading to death, researchers said.
    — Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The first real push came in 2009, when the Norwegian company Statkraft built one of the world’s first prototype osmotic power plants.
    — New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Unlike other renewable sources of energy, which are intermittent, osmotic power runs 24 hours per day, independent of the weather.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Where osmotic power fits in the energy mix In reality, osmotic power won’t replace solar or wind as a dominant renewable energy source.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike solar or wind, osmotic power can run continuously wherever fresh and saltwater meet; at estuaries, desalination plants, even inland salt lakes.
    — New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The principle behind osmotic potential is deceptively simple.
    — New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Theoretically, osmotic power could generate up to 5,000 terawatt-hours of power annually.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The core challenge of saltwater exposure is osmotic imbalance, as seminal research from the Journal of Experimental Zoology explains.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026

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