as in suffused
to spread throughout
with tie-dyeing, the dye does not interpenetrate the entire fabric
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Slow-attack tones emerge and are subsumed back within the haze, like single strands of a spiderweb zooming in and out of focus; the uppermost reaches are suffused in a delicate scrim of what sounds like electronic crickets.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
14 Jan. 2026 -
Its pages are suffused with love for her mother and for the myriad anonymous Chinese sources and academics who help Chang in researching her historical projects — and suffered blowback as a result.—
Emily Feng,
NPR,
13 Jan. 2026
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Their toddler, who was watching, went into her bedroom and wailed as her father penetrated her mother.—
S. C. Cornell,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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Iran’s clerical oligarchs are shaken and still sorting out how their defenses were compromised and their intelligence apparatus penetrated.—
Ray Takeyh,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Dec. 2025
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The smell of dirt, hay and horse manure permeated the building.—
Chris Torres,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Jan. 2026
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Storm says fear permeated daily life.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
6 Jan. 2026
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The questions were changed repeatedly before the advisers were scheduled to vote Thursday, an echo of some of the confusion that also pervaded previous meetings.—
Jamie Gumbrecht,
CNN Money,
5 Dec. 2025
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With each pot, cast iron skillet, and cooking utensil, Gilmore exemplified this longstanding tradition in Black life, negotiating her identity in America and resisting the ills of racial segregation that pervaded nearly every aspect of her community.—
Time,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Interpenetrated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interpenetrated. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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