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Recent Examples of interpenetrate The works that were being presented onstage, both blackface and ballet, were addressing themes that interpenetrated everyday life. Chava Pearl Lansky, JSTOR Daily, 30 July 2025 The strong medicine of Zen and other mystical traditions can flip us into a state of experiencing our whole Self—a boundless, selfless Self that interpenetrates with all that is. Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025 Building and action interpenetrate in the courtyards, arcades, and stairways. Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024 Water interpenetrates it, a gleaming, mercurial counter-spiral spooling into its open rockwork. Jennifer L. Roberts, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2023 Negative space and positive materiality interpenetrate in an extraordinary formal condensation of Cubist technique. Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022 With the degree that the two countries interpenetrate each other’s elite and intelligence establishments, think the Russian military couldn’t get a kill shot on President Volodymyr Zelensky? Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022 Traditionalist Catholic ideas and values now interpenetrate conservative American political thought and nearly every political institution of consequence. Peter Hammond Schwartz, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021 Spaces and forms interpenetrated. Sculptural concrete projections that housed the chambers and the mayor’s office protruded from a modular facade of offices. Joseph Giovannini, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interpenetrate
Verb
  • These small particles can penetrate deep into the lungs and can be a cause of conditions such as asthma and bronchitis, according to health officials.
    Rajeev Tyagi, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Lecter’s main power was his penetrating thinking and sustained intuiting.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Smith suffuses the book with a kind of clinical detachment, even as the dread mounts with each page.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
  • His music, stuffed with live instrumentation and harmonic sophistication, is suffused with the sound and spirit of Sly Stone, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye, among many others.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Devices have permeated all aspects of sleep, Paruthi said.
    Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Cooperation to Reach Critical Mass A sense of togetherness permeated the entire two-day forum, with industry operators expressing pride over more cohesive initiatives.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Blurred boundaries pervade love and intimacy now.
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Soul remakes of classic hip-hop songs have since pervaded social media.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Interpenetrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interpenetrate. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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