as in to suffuse
to spread throughout
the delicious scent of roasting turkey pervaded the house
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Recent Examples of pervade
From there, kabocha likely pervaded other parts of Asia through trade.
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Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 19 Sep. 2025
Either way, those quotation marks are the first signs of a cynicism that pervades Reza’s project, now expanding to enshroud this whole production.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
Kirk's death also comes at a time when free speech issues are pervading college campuses around the country and prompting fierce debate among school leaders about how best to respond.
—Brieanna J. Frank, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
There’s a clunkiness that pervades the entire enterprise.
—Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2025
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Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 19 Sep. 2025
Either way, those quotation marks are the first signs of a cynicism that pervades Reza’s project, now expanding to enshroud this whole production.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
Kirk's death also comes at a time when free speech issues are pervading college campuses around the country and prompting fierce debate among school leaders about how best to respond.
—Brieanna J. Frank, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
There’s a clunkiness that pervades the entire enterprise.
—Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pervade
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But will this common sense prevail in an era suffused with division and mutual political loathing?—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Sep. 2025
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The film certainly steers clear of Emmerichian overdrive, but it is suffused with hopelessness — on both an intimate and an epic scale.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2025
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Blue light targets acne-causing bacteria to help keep breakouts at bay, while red and near-infrared wavelengths penetrate deeper to stimulate collagen, improve circulation, and promote skin repair.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
1 Oct. 2025
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Once in the stomach, the larvae penetrate the intestinal wall and migrate to the skin.—
Michal Ruprecht,
NPR,
1 Oct. 2025
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With his second swing adapting Pynchon, the writer-director managed to take many of the aforementioned ideas and themes that permeate the author’s oeuvre and transplant them into struggles unfolding in a version of our present day.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Oct. 2025
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And that kind of knowledge, which gets passed down and permeates down through the generations, would be very difficult to replicate quickly.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Pervade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pervade. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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