permeated

verb

past tense of permeate
as in suffused
to spread throughout the smell of freshly baked bread permeated the house

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Recent Examples of permeated Prediction markets have permeated the worlds of sports, politics, and reality television shows. — Elaine Chen, STAT, 16 July 2026 All these features also permeated the air in the last giddy days of 1999. — James Berman, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026 Advertisement The captain’s drive has permeated to the entire team. — Sean Gregory, Time, 1 July 2026 Aside from Love Story, there isn’t another limited series this year that permeated the culture the way Adolescence or the first season of White Lotus did. — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 25 June 2026 An eye-watering, cough-inducing thick stench of burning plastic permeated Dodger Stadium on Sunday morning. — Liana Handler, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2026 The company’s methods have permeated baseball in hitting and pitching. — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 18 June 2026 Soon, the war permeated the homes of millions of Americans — by television, radio and newspaper. — Kyana Moghadam, NPR, 9 June 2026 One wall was completely deconstructed, and the stench of cigarettes and space heaters permeated the air. — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 6 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for permeated
  1. suffused
  2. penetrated
  3. pervaded
Verb
  • Good binoculars will reveal a score of stars in this little group, while long-exposure observatory photographs show about 1000 in the area — all suffused in great clouds and streamers of nebulous light.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 July 2026
  • Lyrically, these 10 songs are suffused with a bittersweet feeling of nostalgia for early adulthood, as heard on the album’s title track.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2026
Definition of suffused
Verb
  • While most of that warming occurs near the surface, measurements show heat has also penetrated to depths of roughly 3,000 meters over recent decades.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • Ivory Coast has penetrated the box a bit more, but both sides have just one shot and zero on target.
    — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 June 2026
Definition of penetrated
Verb
  • Fear over airstrikes on Iran, which pervaded many conversations with locals during the war, has evaporated.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
  • Uncertainty pervaded the potential visit, according to the person, with the region on edge over the war in Iran.
    — Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 12 June 2026
Definition of pervaded

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