as in suffused
to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle
her training at the school for the deaf imbued her with a sense of purpose that she had never known before
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Recent Examples of imbued
Set in a 16th-century annex to Palazzo Borghese, whose verdant gardens are visible from the rooms on the upper floors, Hotel Vilòn was designed by architect Giampiero Panepinto and set designer Paolo Bonfini, who imbued it with a bit of cinematic flair.
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Laura Itzkowitz, Robb Report, 4 June 2026
At the sentence level, its craftsmanship sings; her prose is as lush and imbued with the miraculous as it is lived-in and inviting.
—Rachel Vorona Cote, Vulture, 2 June 2026
They were encouraged to purchase pricey gemstones from him that were supposedly imbued with healing powers.
—Marlow Stern, Variety, 1 June 2026
Major competitor Geotab emphasized AI at its big conference earlier in 2026, while Samsara also claims its dashcams are imbued with AI.
—James Morris, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
But the show wouldn’t have worked without Smart, who imbued Deborah with wisdom and weariness, grit and glamour.
—Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 29 May 2026
This combined approach imbued his treatise with both a remarkable precision and a notable breadth of vision.
—Literary Hub, 27 May 2026
Donald imbued Advance with spirit, ambition, trust, and real care for people.
—Anna Wintour, Vogue, 27 May 2026
This is a war film less ordinary, for it is imbued with the emotional acuity of a life-changing therapist.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 25 May 2026
Laura Itzkowitz, Robb Report, 4 June 2026
At the sentence level, its craftsmanship sings; her prose is as lush and imbued with the miraculous as it is lived-in and inviting.
—Rachel Vorona Cote, Vulture, 2 June 2026
They were encouraged to purchase pricey gemstones from him that were supposedly imbued with healing powers.
—Marlow Stern, Variety, 1 June 2026
Major competitor Geotab emphasized AI at its big conference earlier in 2026, while Samsara also claims its dashcams are imbued with AI.
—James Morris, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
But the show wouldn’t have worked without Smart, who imbued Deborah with wisdom and weariness, grit and glamour.
—Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 29 May 2026
This combined approach imbued his treatise with both a remarkable precision and a notable breadth of vision.
—Literary Hub, 27 May 2026
Donald imbued Advance with spirit, ambition, trust, and real care for people.
—Anna Wintour, Vogue, 27 May 2026
This is a war film less ordinary, for it is imbued with the emotional acuity of a life-changing therapist.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 25 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for imbued
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Experiments like Strachey’s were part of an explosion of postwar research on the relationship between mathematics and language, expressions of a broader fascination with the automation of knowledge, which crossed disciplines and suffused the culture.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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The rest of the film consists of the brother and sister’s return to the ranch, now suffused with dread at Misael’s inability to properly care for his sibling.—
Vadim Rizov,
IndieWire,
16 May 2026
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Watercress curled like a dragon’s tail through a broth infused with the pleasantly medical earthiness of chuan bei, an herb in the lily family known to help stem a cough.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
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To address safety and longevity, the researchers replaced flammable liquid electrolytes with a solid-state composite matrix made of ceramic-polyethylene oxide polymer infused with lithium-rich nanoparticles.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
3 June 2026
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“Imbued.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imbued. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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