as in suffused
to spread throughout
the smell of freshly baked bread permeated the house
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Recent Examples of permeated
The smell of dirt, hay and horse manure permeated the building.
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Chris Torres, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Jan. 2026
Storm says fear permeated daily life.
—Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 6 Jan. 2026
The objective permeated throughout conversations before and after Sunday’s season finale loss to the New York Giants.
—Joseph Hoyt, Dallas Morning News, 5 Jan. 2026
For Hollywood in particular, the year’s events prompted the biggest reckoning yet with AI, which permeated the industry with the promise of efficiency and new artistic horizons but also threats to longstanding business practices.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 3 Jan. 2026
Those stats permeated throughout the first half, with the Tide rushing for only 29 yards on 11 carries.
—The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
Some of these charmed and haunting strains have permeated through broader American musical culture.
—Christian Goodwillie, The Conversation, 22 Dec. 2025
That sense of fun and fellowship has always permeated the restaurant, where many of the leadership team members have worked for more than a decade.
—Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 22 Dec. 2025
Trope Marketing Won’t Be Just For Romance Anymore There’s a semi-secret language that’s permeated book marketing in the past year — and its popularity came entirely from TikTok.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2025
Chris Torres, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Jan. 2026
Storm says fear permeated daily life.
—Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 6 Jan. 2026
The objective permeated throughout conversations before and after Sunday’s season finale loss to the New York Giants.
—Joseph Hoyt, Dallas Morning News, 5 Jan. 2026
For Hollywood in particular, the year’s events prompted the biggest reckoning yet with AI, which permeated the industry with the promise of efficiency and new artistic horizons but also threats to longstanding business practices.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 3 Jan. 2026
Those stats permeated throughout the first half, with the Tide rushing for only 29 yards on 11 carries.
—The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
Some of these charmed and haunting strains have permeated through broader American musical culture.
—Christian Goodwillie, The Conversation, 22 Dec. 2025
That sense of fun and fellowship has always permeated the restaurant, where many of the leadership team members have worked for more than a decade.
—Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 22 Dec. 2025
Trope Marketing Won’t Be Just For Romance Anymore There’s a semi-secret language that’s permeated book marketing in the past year — and its popularity came entirely from TikTok.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for permeated
Verb
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Reid seemed to truly believe, despite the partisanship that suffused the column, that the Senate had been badly damaged.—
Jon Ralston,
The Atlantic,
18 Jan. 2026
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Slow-attack tones emerge and are subsumed back within the haze, like single strands of a spiderweb zooming in and out of focus; the uppermost reaches are suffused in a delicate scrim of what sounds like electronic crickets.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
14 Jan. 2026
Verb
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No researcher had penetrated these depths or mapped the ice sheet’s underlying terrain in such vivid, thrilling detail.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Jan. 2026
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In rapid fire, five stabs penetrated Rivera’s chest, head, and shoulder.—
Mattha Busby,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The questions were changed repeatedly before the advisers were scheduled to vote Thursday, an echo of some of the confusion that also pervaded previous meetings.—
Jamie Gumbrecht,
CNN Money,
5 Dec. 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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“Permeated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permeated. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.
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