as in to penetrate
to spread throughout
the closing shot of the film is one of those iconic images that has long since percolated into the cultural consciousness
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Sheriff’s deputies even used ground-penetrating radar and cadaver dogs to search the property of his father, Ruben Flores, in Arroyo Grande in 2021.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
10 May 2026 -
But Parkinson said there have since been advances in the soil science and the ground-penetrating radar investigators used to scour the property.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN Money,
10 May 2026
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The Meltdown is suffused with the visual and audio textures of horror, and deliberately so.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2026
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Warnings, laments, and odes to renewal were expressed pictorially as dying days under bleeding heavens, belching volcanoes, proud icebergs, lavish rainbows amid spangling, mist-suffusing sunlight and dawns of peace and hope.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Here’s another favorite, also permeated by regret!—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
13 May 2026
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Color permeates more than interior design.—
Eleni N. Gage,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 May 2026
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The lead up to this anniversary has happened alongside this looming, all-pervading sense that a revolution — both political and moral — is mounting.—
Payton Turkeltaub,
Variety,
13 May 2026
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But the office’s pervading atmosphere of hard work and quiet focus felt uncannily similar to its big-screen analog.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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“Percolate (into).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/percolate%20%28into%29. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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