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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This product can be helpful for removing rust from hidden areas and crevices that are hard to penetrate.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
26 July 2025 -
However, when the $540 ceiling was being penetrated, the RSI did not confirm with a push to new highs indicating that momentum, or rate-of-change, was waning.—
Todd Gordon,
CNBC,
22 July 2025
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The notion that Social Security faces a shortfall suffuses the national conversation about retirement.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
24 July 2025
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The one person who actually went to prison for the 2021 shooting death of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins is free just weeks after the tragedy suffused Alec Baldwin starring indie Western premiered and then promptly disappeared in a cloud of box office dust earlier this month.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
25 May 2025
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An instant later, six-foot-tall flames burst upward in blazing pillars, followed by an intoxicating waft of garlic, lemon and herbs that permeated the air over a crowd of awed onlookers.—
Luis Melecio-Zambrano,
Mercury News,
25 July 2025
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Known as the cosmic microwave background, or CMB, that radiation is a diffuse light that permeates all of space.—
Nadia Drake,
Scientific American,
22 July 2025
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Tension over the state House speaker’s race — one of the votes in which Democratic House members have significant leverage — also pervaded the event.—
Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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An interesting blend of triumph and cynicism pervades the finale, as the rebel guard No Eul (Park Gyu-young) manages to overpower the others, and free Gyeong-seok (Lee Jin-wook), who returns to his daughter.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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“Percolate (into).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/percolate%20%28into%29. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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