as in to penetrate
to spread throughout
the smell of freshly baked bread permeated the house
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Recent Examples of permeate
From the arts to architecture to language to radio, Nazi propaganda permeated the mass imagination.
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Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
His swagger and confidence – in the locker room and on the floor – permeate down the lineup.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2026
Brownlee, too, acknowledged the sense of anxiety permeating her team of climbers.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2026
Most of all, life at Kukuiʻula allows residents to experience the feelings of belonging, family togetherness, and ties to nature that permeate Hawaiian culture.
—Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2026
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Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
His swagger and confidence – in the locker room and on the floor – permeate down the lineup.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2026
Brownlee, too, acknowledged the sense of anxiety permeating her team of climbers.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2026
Most of all, life at Kukuiʻula allows residents to experience the feelings of belonging, family togetherness, and ties to nature that permeate Hawaiian culture.
—Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for permeate
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Sheriff’s deputies even used ground-penetrating radar and cadaver dogs to search the property of his father, Ruben Flores, in Arroyo Grande in 2021.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
10 May 2026
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But Parkinson said there have since been advances in the soil science and the ground-penetrating radar investigators used to scour the property.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN Money,
10 May 2026
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Warnings, laments, and odes to renewal were expressed pictorially as dying days under bleeding heavens, belching volcanoes, proud icebergs, lavish rainbows amid spangling, mist-suffusing sunlight and dawns of peace and hope.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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And, come evening, the ocean’s surface is suffused with gold as the sun dips beyond the horizon.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 Apr. 2026
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But the office’s pervading atmosphere of hard work and quiet focus felt uncannily similar to its big-screen analog.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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If there’s cleverness to the way Lindsay-Abaire keeps passing the buck of hypocrisy between the members of the neighborhood association, there’s also a pervading sense of decorum that limits how far the satire can go.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Permeate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permeate. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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