all-pervasive

Definition of all-pervasivenext

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Recent Examples of all-pervasive Every member of the dominant culture is part of an all-pervasive racist tapestry that is woven into every aspect of American life. Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2025 The paradigm that the Pixel introduced was now all-pervasive. Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025 Maybe, but Yellowstone is too valuable, and too all-pervasive, to end. Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2024 There is no person, no moment, no experience, devoid of the all-pervasive oneness of the Ribbono shel Olam. Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024 Inside the church the light filters through large tinted windows reflecting on a mirror in the center of the room, creating an all-pervasive golden hue. Chiara Barzini, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2023 In this view, consciousness was already there before brains existed, like an all-pervasive ether. Dan Falk, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2023 Get ready to savor the all-pervasive sense of wellbeing that using Medterra CBD oil produces. Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023 Enterprises must relay that digitization and automation are enablers and not all-pervasive, all-seeing entities institutionalized to compensate for the lack of in-person supervision. Lakshmi Raj, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for all-pervasive
Adjective
  • Some have come out of nowhere, others have taken months to catch on, and all of them could become ubiquitous in the blink of a TikTok clip.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 11 Mar. 2026
  • This bright, healthy and sweet-tart salad was inspired by one of the ubiquitous features of Death Valley National Park – the prickly pear.
    John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Hanson, who spends much of his life crawling through underbrush to count trees, plunged ahead into stands of chest-high ceanothus, pointing out sequoias camouflaged in the pervasive post-fire brush.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The case back then also involved the bodies of naked, mutilated women, plus all the sexism and homophobia that were pervasive in police work in 1998 and are apparently ship-shape today.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Now, effects from the fresh conflict in the Middle East are rippling across the region, further fragmenting a once efficient and finely tuned global aviation network.
    Zach Levitt, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
  • In the future, Doral Hydrogen is also looking to replicate this off-grid model across its 1 GW global portfolio by proving that H2Pro’s hardware can handle the flicker of solar power without breaking.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 Mar. 2026

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“All-pervasive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/all-pervasive. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.

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