as in to suffuse
to spread throughout
the delicious scent of roasting turkey pervaded the house
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Recent Examples of pervade
But amid the utter devastation of two years of war, a sense of gloom pervades.
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Saher Alghorra, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
The pathos of being a veep pervades Kamala Harris’s campaign memoir 107 Days.
—Book Marks
october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
Until very recently, people who have been pregnant or given birth kept the experience to themselves; a sense of secrecy or even shame pervaded the realities of welcoming a child.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025
From there, kabocha likely pervaded other parts of Asia through trade.
—Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 19 Sep. 2025
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Saher Alghorra, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
The pathos of being a veep pervades Kamala Harris’s campaign memoir 107 Days.
—Book Marks
october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
Until very recently, people who have been pregnant or given birth kept the experience to themselves; a sense of secrecy or even shame pervaded the realities of welcoming a child.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025
From there, kabocha likely pervaded other parts of Asia through trade.
—Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pervade
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Smith suffuses the book with a kind of clinical detachment, even as the dread mounts with each page.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
22 Oct. 2025
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His music, stuffed with live instrumentation and harmonic sophistication, is suffused with the sound and spirit of Sly Stone, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye, among many others.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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Related diseases come from isotopes in the nuclear fallout that can penetrate the human body and cause mutations in DNA, according to a 2024 paper from the American Society of Clinical Oncology Journal.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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This play can penetrate the walls of people's homes and their personal experiences in such intimate ways.—
Esther Zuckerman,
Time,
4 Nov. 2025
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Systems thinking, which involves looking at a problem not in isolation but as part of a larger, more complex ecosystem, has also permeated both the accelerator program and the broader remit of H&M Foundation itself.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
31 Oct. 2025
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Initially, physicists envisioned inflation as a cold process that involved energy fields that permeated all of space.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Pervade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pervade. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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