as in suffusing
to spread throughout
the smell of freshly baked bread permeated the house
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Recent Examples of permeating
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.
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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
Once again there was a sense of the ‘70s (an era marked by Karl Lagerfeld at Chloé) permeating the collection with flouncy blouses styled with maxi skirts (a look that has skyrocketed to the top of my fall wishlist), crop tops, and mostly decorative statement belts.
—Irina Grechko, refinery29.com, 7 Mar. 2025
However, comparing OpenAI and xAI specifically, OpenAI is responsible for more of the innovative ideas permeating AI than is the case for xAI.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
So those would be the sort of broad sectors that I would be focused on for the next leg of AI sort of permeating into the broader stock market.
—Andy Mills, Quartz, 11 Feb. 2025
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
Once again there was a sense of the ‘70s (an era marked by Karl Lagerfeld at Chloé) permeating the collection with flouncy blouses styled with maxi skirts (a look that has skyrocketed to the top of my fall wishlist), crop tops, and mostly decorative statement belts.
—Irina Grechko, refinery29.com, 7 Mar. 2025
However, comparing OpenAI and xAI specifically, OpenAI is responsible for more of the innovative ideas permeating AI than is the case for xAI.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
So those would be the sort of broad sectors that I would be focused on for the next leg of AI sort of permeating into the broader stock market.
—Andy Mills, Quartz, 11 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for permeating
penetrating
Verb
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Coppola asks a few penetrating questions.—
Caryn James,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Sep. 2025
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Furthermore, the low abundance of water vapor in the coma of 3I/ATLAS could indicate that there is something within the comet that is inhibiting heat from penetrating the icy core of the comet.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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“Permeating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permeating. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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