as in to suffuse
to spread throughout
the delicious scent of roasting turkey pervaded the house
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Recent Examples of pervade
But the sense of realism pervades it, not just on the screen, but off, where Beecroft is excited for Sundance, not just for the film, but so she can be reunited with the Zimiga clan.
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Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2025
More than one commentator has compared the sense of crisis and fear that pervades America’s fragmented political culture to the situation in Weimar Germany in the years before that democratic government gave way to authoritarianism.
—Christine Adams / Made By History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
Our research also highlights the stark racial disparities that pervade Maryland’s justice system.
—Jasmine L. Tyler, Baltimore Sun, 6 Feb. 2025
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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Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2025
More than one commentator has compared the sense of crisis and fear that pervades America’s fragmented political culture to the situation in Weimar Germany in the years before that democratic government gave way to authoritarianism.
—Christine Adams / Made By History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
Our research also highlights the stark racial disparities that pervade Maryland’s justice system.
—Jasmine L. Tyler, Baltimore Sun, 6 Feb. 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pervade
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The Federalist Papers, the 85 essays written to persuade voters to support ratification, were suffused with this optimism.—
Maurizio Valsania,
The Conversation,
5 Mar. 2025
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Girls trying to learn to negotiate the world, repressive institutions in cavernous spaces and obscurely malevolent authority figures, all suffused in an atmosphere of menace, are her recurring motifs.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2025
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Sometimes, the most biting and penetrating films are the ones that poke fun at society’s absurdities—a dynamic that Mark Mylod fully understood with The Menu.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Heavy precipitation events often cause soil runoff and don’t penetrate the ground as well as consistent rainfall over several days.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
14 Mar. 2025
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Hunt believes that Laughton’s character and drive to win permeated the room and rubbed off on the Generals’ younger players.—
Joshua Kloke,
The Athletic,
8 Mar. 2025
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Once again there was a sense of the ‘70s (an era marked by Karl Lagerfeld at Chloé) permeating the collection with flouncy blouses styled with maxi skirts (a look that has skyrocketed to the top of my fall wishlist), crop tops, and mostly decorative statement belts.—
Irina Grechko,
refinery29.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Pervade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pervade. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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