permeated

past tense of permeate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of permeated Despite being confined to her bed, covered in tubes, tangled in wires, despite being separated by gloves and masks and isolation gowns, our laughter permeated all those barriers. Anna Tsioulias, STAT, 29 July 2026 In 2025, anxiety permeated Indianapolis as the All-Star Weekend kicked off a contentious period of CBA negotiations. Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 26 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 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
Verb
  • The threat is still there, suffused into the air like a memory, but for a time the choice between love and survival no longer feels mutually exclusive to Nino and Yasmina.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 22 July 2026
  • 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
Verb
  • OpenAI reported that models being tested on a cybersecurity benchmark found a way out of an isolated environment, obtained internet access and penetrated Hugging Face infrastructure.
    Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • All of these appeared to originate at boundaries between tiles, suggesting hot gas may have penetrated these boundaries.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 27 July 2026
Verb
  • And creature comforts pervaded—from the in-room Chromecast to the plush bed.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2026
  • Fear over airstrikes on Iran, which pervaded many conversations with locals during the war, has evaporated.
    Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 5 July 2026

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“Permeated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permeated. Accessed 7 Aug. 2026.

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