as in to penetrate
to spread throughout
the smell of freshly baked bread permeated the house
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Recent Examples of permeate
Initially, physicists envisioned inflation as a cold process that involved energy fields that permeated all of space.
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Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2025
Devices have permeated all aspects of sleep, Paruthi said.
—Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2025
Cooperation to Reach Critical Mass A sense of togetherness permeated the entire two-day forum, with industry operators expressing pride over more cohesive initiatives.
—Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025
Music fans are still mourning the death of legendary singer D’Angelo and lauding how the vastness of his musical experiences, from gospel to funk to soul, permeates his catalog.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
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Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2025
Devices have permeated all aspects of sleep, Paruthi said.
—Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2025
Cooperation to Reach Critical Mass A sense of togetherness permeated the entire two-day forum, with industry operators expressing pride over more cohesive initiatives.
—Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025
Music fans are still mourning the death of legendary singer D’Angelo and lauding how the vastness of his musical experiences, from gospel to funk to soul, permeates his catalog.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for permeate
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Related diseases come from isotopes in the nuclear fallout that can penetrate the human body and cause mutations in DNA, according to a 2024 paper from the American Society of Clinical Oncology Journal.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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This play can penetrate the walls of people's homes and their personal experiences in such intimate ways.—
Esther Zuckerman,
Time,
4 Nov. 2025
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One of the great pleasures of anime is that its unabashed, rollicky genre pieces are often suffused with grand, but not grandiose, sociopolitical commentary — a heady combination that many similar pictures can’t pull off.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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Smith suffuses the book with a kind of clinical detachment, even as the dread mounts with each page.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
22 Oct. 2025
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With each pot, cast iron skillet, and cooking utensil, Gilmore exemplified this longstanding tradition in Black life, negotiating her identity in America and resisting the ills of racial segregation that pervaded nearly every aspect of her community.—
Time,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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Reference to lynchings pervaded the cases arising from the roundup.—
Equal Justice Initiative,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Permeate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permeate. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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