sink in
phrasal verb
sank in or sunk in; sunk in; sinking in; sinks in
: to become completely known, felt, or understood
I had to tell him what to do over and over before it finally sank in.
The fact that she's left me still hasn't really sunk in.
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Forty-six of more than a thousand people who died when the General Slocum, a passenger steamboat, sank in the East River, in 1904, are at Green-Wood.
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Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Two men remain missing after a 10-foot boat sank in rough ocean conditions off an Alaska island, state troopers reported.
—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 28 May 2025
When Harvard’s Chan School issued the press release, an environmental chemistry postdoc was giving Azimi a crash course in water sampling at the utility sink in the garage of his Boston home.
—Ashley Belanger – May 27, ArsTechnica, 27 May 2025
The Joker’s season sank in the kiddie pool for the second spring in a row.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 27 May 2025
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Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Two men remain missing after a 10-foot boat sank in rough ocean conditions off an Alaska island, state troopers reported.
—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 28 May 2025
When Harvard’s Chan School issued the press release, an environmental chemistry postdoc was giving Azimi a crash course in water sampling at the utility sink in the garage of his Boston home.
—Ashley Belanger – May 27, ArsTechnica, 27 May 2025
The Joker’s season sank in the kiddie pool for the second spring in a row.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 27 May 2025
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“Sink in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sink%20in. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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