as in to suffuse
to spread throughout
the delicious scent of roasting turkey pervaded the house
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Recent Examples of pervade
Man, if the vibe of the late Sixties and the early Seventies was the pervading spirit of the day, then let peace and love win!
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Jay Glennie, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
Mich Fabriga, vice president of LTL pricing for AFS, said the LTL market will continue to hone in on profitability as uncertainty pervades.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 23 Oct. 2025
But amid the utter devastation of two years of war, a sense of gloom pervades.
—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
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Jay Glennie, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
Mich Fabriga, vice president of LTL pricing for AFS, said the LTL market will continue to hone in on profitability as uncertainty pervades.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 23 Oct. 2025
But amid the utter devastation of two years of war, a sense of gloom pervades.
—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
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One of the great pleasures of anime is that its unabashed, rollicky genre pieces are often suffused with grand, but not grandiose, sociopolitical commentary — a heady combination that many similar pictures can’t pull off.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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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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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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Still, a second-generation Jewish American sensibility permeated Caesar’s shows—not just in Yiddish tossed into barbarous tongues but in the pervasive mood of streetwise distrust.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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The squash must be cubed to allow the heat to permeate all of the food.—
Laura Simpson,
Oc Register,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Pervade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pervade. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025.
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