as in suffused
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 film draws power from the subtle specificity; Børsum’s voice, low and knowing, comes suffused with an ineffable meaning.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
5 Jan. 2026 -
They are suffused in glowy, surreal, ecstatic light.—
Adam Moss,
Vulture,
12 Dec. 2025
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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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“Percolated (into).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/percolated%20%28into%29. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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