as in to penetrate
to spread throughout
the closing shot of the film is one of those iconic images that has long since percolated into the cultural consciousness
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During the cool, wet winter months, the elements responded by curling upwards, allowing ample sunlight to penetrate the building.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
6 Feb. 2025 -
Scoring—cutting a shallow criss-cross pattern—allows seasonings to penetrate deeper into foods.—
Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
6 Feb. 2025
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But there’s a tender vulnerability to his characters, and the daffy empathy that suffuses the writing is unique to Arbery.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2025
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His approach to bureaucratic combat was to suffuse the conversation with detail.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
The New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2025
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Aside from the methane smell that permeates the area around the landfill and the dust that pollutes our air, the decaying trash is most certainly leaching into the Biscayne Aquifer, the source of our drinking water.—
Jacqueline Railey,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Feb. 2025
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Water cleanliness, changing weather patterns, artificial intelligence, clean energy development and increasing incidents of flooding in coastal neighborhoods are just a few of the areas where science permeates the lives of Maryland residents.—
Brendon Davis,
Baltimore Sun,
5 Feb. 2025
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Our research also highlights the stark racial disparities that pervade Maryland’s justice system.—
Jasmine L. Tyler,
Baltimore Sun,
6 Feb. 2025
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Notions that children are nearly immune to COVID and don’t need to be vaccinated have pervaded.—
Blake Murdoch,
Scientific American,
18 Oct. 2024
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“Percolate (into).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/percolate%20%28into%29. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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