Thesaurus results for FILLS (UP)

fills (up)

verb

present tense third-person singular of fill (up)

as in passes (into)

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Valeri, who began playing at age 4 in his Buenos Aires suburb, said the futbol passion and aptitude run deep in a country where community pride infuses youth-club rivalries and street soccer prevails in many neighborhoods.

— Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2026
The chip is also rumored to have TSMC’s Wafer-Level Multi-Chip Module (WMCM) technology, which infuses RAM into the same wafer as the CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine.

— Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 16 July 2026

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Their signature farmhouse look imbues it with a certain bucolic charm, and all their products are hand-forged in Charleston, South Carolina.

— Clara Hillis, Architectural Digest, 22 July 2026
DeHaan stars as an awkward teen who films his every move and, along with his friends, stumbles upon a mysterious object that imbues them with remarkable powers.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026

Definition of imbues

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This attitude pervades the report’s approach to AI, which largely buys into the biggest hype imaginable.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 23 July 2026
For all the ways politics pervades modern life, political deep-dives on television are actually rare, reduced to the occasional documentary or longform cable news piece.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026

Definition of pervades

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Even as culture permeates up from the internet, being around the corner is important.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
But translating that club success to something that permeates into the fabric of the sport back home requires a bigger moment — or movement.

— Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 5 July 2026

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