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as in to infuse
to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle
she was suffused with an overwhelming feeling of liberation as her horse broke into a gallop
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as in to penetrate
to spread throughout
a living room suffused with warm sunlight
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Recent Examples of suffuse
Feel your immortal soul being warmed and suffused with pleasures both rare and immeasurable.
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Today, jazz suffuses the city so completely that the genre is embedded in funeral traditions here, as brass bands often accompany mourners from the church to the cemetery in a celebratory display.
—Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 21 Mar. 2025
The rhythmic and narrative thrust of Khan’s Kathak suffuses everything.
—Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Here and Now Agency/paul vu Music schools can be brutal places, suffused with envy and moistened by tears.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 13 Mar. 2025
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Today, jazz suffuses the city so completely that the genre is embedded in funeral traditions here, as brass bands often accompany mourners from the church to the cemetery in a celebratory display.
—Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 21 Mar. 2025
The rhythmic and narrative thrust of Khan’s Kathak suffuses everything.
—Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Here and Now Agency/paul vu Music schools can be brutal places, suffused with envy and moistened by tears.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suffuse
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CoD should be comfortably infused in your prompting mindset when using generative AI.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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Built in 1930 and infused with quintessential French Riviera glamour, the cliffside estate’s most legendary claim to fame is one of its former owners.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
11 May 2025
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Pros: Instant hydration and plump Cons: Pricey for the amount of product A dermatologist favorite, this product penetrates deep into the skin, increasing the skin’s hyaluronic acid levels, aiding in long-term hydration and plumping.—
Taryn Brooke,
Glamour,
14 May 2025
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There are ongoing awareness campaigns to spread information about energy-efficient appliances and how to cook with them, though the messaging has not yet penetrated everywhere.—
Christine Ro,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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The process could not only imbue massive objects with more energy but also amplify electromagnetic waves in a phenomenon called superradiance.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
12 May 2025
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The puppets imbued the play with a poetry of motion and an otherworldly sense of wonder.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2025
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Here’s how: The value of the Higgs field that pervades all of space would have to increase—something physicists liken to rolling a boulder up a hill.—
Jeanna Bryner,
Scientific American,
20 May 2025
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Fixing the flaws that pervade the current market is an opportunity that the 119th Congress should not let slip away.—
Wayne Winegarden,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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The headlines may be grim, but history is generous to those who stay invested.—
John Buckingham,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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Piercey paid back $8.8 million of the $35 million invested, according to the statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.—
Lesley Cosme Torres,
People.com,
20 May 2025
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Instead of a blazing back alley permeated with the stench of garbage and plagued by rats, residents find a lush and usable green space, cooled by the shade of tall perimeter buildings and by heat-absorbing vegetation.—
Alicia Pederson,
Chicago Tribune,
19 May 2025
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The #MeToo movement, in particular, has laid bare the culture of coercion and abuse that permeates every institution and created space for women to feel supported by online communities.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
17 May 2025
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The agency, whose fewer than 1,900 federal employees oversee the more than 60,000 contractors who build and maintain the U.S. nuclear arsenal, has struggled to fill crucial safety roles.—
Davis Winkie,
USA Today,
19 May 2025
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And the internet is filled with travel advisors and tour agencies that sell these types of hidden adventures.—
Ramsey Qubein,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2025
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This is a unique public-private partnership effort which involves conservation organizations such as the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to inculcate environmental education across the country.—
Saleem H. Ali,
Forbes,
5 Dec. 2024
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Roth said employees at the charity would have to be expressing and inculcating religious doctrine, such as requiring participation in a prayer before a meal is served at a soup kitchen.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Suffuse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suffuse. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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