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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Later on, water may have penetrated through cracks in the rock, depositing minerals to create the calcium sulfate veins and leopard spots.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2025 -
Fewer GCRs penetrating to earth’s atmosphere would mean fewer clouds to reflect heat and thus more global warming.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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His narration is a constant pleasure — mournful, wry, and suffused with a world-weary poetry.—
Leila Latif,
IndieWire,
31 Aug. 2025
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Does that ideal suffuse your work?—
Sean Woods,
Rolling Stone,
5 Aug. 2025
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The parents of an older girl named Sarah Summers—the very name still carries a shiver of excitement—gave me her old clothes from time to time, in washed, folded stacks that were permeated with a middle-class laundry fragrance, the smell of another world, better than my own.—
Rachel Kushner,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2025
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Songs from The Avett Brothers’ catalog permeate the nearly 90-minute one-act show, which has a run-time decidedly on the short end for productions of its ilk.—
Adam Bell,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Sep. 2025
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Kirk's death also comes at a time when free speech issues are pervading college campuses around the country and prompting fierce debate among school leaders about how best to respond.—
BrieAnna J. Frank,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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There’s a clunkiness that pervades the entire enterprise.—
Esther Zuckerman,
IndieWire,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Percolate (into).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/percolate%20%28into%29. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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