as in suffuses
to spread throughout
the delicious scent of roasting turkey pervaded the house
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Recent Examples of pervades
There is certainly a layer of ick that pervades this often gleeful depiction of the 1989 murder of Jose and Kitty Menendez by their sons, Lyle and Erik, and the media circus that followed.
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2025
Job insecurity pervades the industry, with 87% of workers describing their employment as unstable.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025
Joe Reid, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2025
Job insecurity pervades the industry, with 87% of workers describing their employment as unstable.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pervades
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An international cult favorite, Lee is revered for the philosophical nerve that suffuses his rigorously inventive melodramas, which variously pick apart the complexities of Korean society.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Aug. 2025
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The sun that hits the electric blinds hardly penetrates the room, the light dances on the walls, predictable yet never the same.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
11 Sep. 2025
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The sun’s light penetrates only a thousand yards down into the ocean.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
7 Sep. 2025
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But after doing trainings across racial and ethnic lines, religious groups, and different regions of the state, Stein came to understand that stigma permeates every group, albeit at different intensities.—
Natalie Eilbert,
jsonline.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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The state of alienation that permeates and infuses Camus’ prose is the missing ingredient here and, without it, Meursault cuts a very different figure — less adrift in ennui and more intentionally nihilistic.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Pervades.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pervades. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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