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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The watershed also is situated on relatively flat, low-lying and porous terrain, enabling higher tides to penetrate deeper into the freshwater marshes through the vast network of canals that holds the watershed together.—
Amy Green,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026 -
Massaging it into the scalp helps stimulate circulation and allows the product to penetrate more effectively.—
Iman Balagam,
Vogue,
8 Jan. 2026
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Reid seemed to truly believe, despite the partisanship that suffused the column, that the Senate had been badly damaged.—
Jon Ralston,
The Atlantic,
18 Jan. 2026
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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
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Glass bottles of water, even in cars for day excursions, were a welcome break from the plastic that still permeates too many other high-end, supposedly conscious stays.—
Megan Spurrell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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Nostalgia permeates the images.—
Stephy Chung,
CNN Money,
22 Jan. 2026
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Some 35 times more energetic than any neutrino seen before, the particle might have shot out from a highly active galaxy — a blazar — or a background source of cosmogenic high-energy particles that scientists suspect pervade the cosmos.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
23 Jan. 2026
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Gold accents and teal velvet upholstery pervade the restaurant, giving the space a cozy, quiet elegance.—
Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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“Percolate (into).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/percolate%20%28into%29. Accessed 27 Jan. 2026.
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