as in suffusing
to spread throughout
the smell of freshly baked bread permeated the house
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Recent Examples of permeating
This ruthless cartel is intent on cashing in, permeating our communities with their poison, with no regard to human suffering.
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Jon Haworth, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2025
There are so many more, and the latest filmmaker to make her mark with this kind of structure is Alice Winocour, who has brought together three very different women to the annual Paris Fashion Week, exploring themes of people uniting to repair and resolve issues permeating their lives.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025
The repetitions of Emery answers and responding with Bizot every time, Martinez’s deputy, were signs of his annoyance and symptomatic of how the uncertainty that had enveloped Villa’s summer was now permeating onto the pitch.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025
As any Anderson fan will tell you, the plucky strings and flutes permeating those early films are essential to their aesthetic identities.
—EW.com, 19 Aug. 2025
No longer confined to the imaginations of sci-fi writers, AI is now an indispensable force permeating and shaping nearly every facet of our lives.
—Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Artificial intelligence has begun to infuse ever more arenas of being and becoming human, permeating everything from work to relationships.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
Vying for a look that stands out in a crowd — an approach as old as fashion — began permeating ballparks and stadiums.
—Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2025
Heavy hang the themes permeating Nadia Latif’s adaptation of Walter Mosley’s 2004 novel.
—Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Jon Haworth, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2025
There are so many more, and the latest filmmaker to make her mark with this kind of structure is Alice Winocour, who has brought together three very different women to the annual Paris Fashion Week, exploring themes of people uniting to repair and resolve issues permeating their lives.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025
The repetitions of Emery answers and responding with Bizot every time, Martinez’s deputy, were signs of his annoyance and symptomatic of how the uncertainty that had enveloped Villa’s summer was now permeating onto the pitch.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025
As any Anderson fan will tell you, the plucky strings and flutes permeating those early films are essential to their aesthetic identities.
—EW.com, 19 Aug. 2025
No longer confined to the imaginations of sci-fi writers, AI is now an indispensable force permeating and shaping nearly every facet of our lives.
—Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Artificial intelligence has begun to infuse ever more arenas of being and becoming human, permeating everything from work to relationships.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
Vying for a look that stands out in a crowd — an approach as old as fashion — began permeating ballparks and stadiums.
—Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2025
Heavy hang the themes permeating Nadia Latif’s adaptation of Walter Mosley’s 2004 novel.
—Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for permeating
penetrating
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Fewer GCRs penetrating to earth’s atmosphere would mean fewer clouds to reflect heat and thus more global warming.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The United States seriously contemplated striking North Korea’s Yongbyon reactor in 1993, even drawing up military plans to attack the site with penetrating munitions delivered by stealth bombers.—
VIPIN NARANG,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Permeating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permeating. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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