pervades

present tense third-person singular of pervade

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of pervades The pathos of being a veep pervades Kamala Harris’s campaign memoir 107 Days. Book Marks october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025 As storytellers, Supergiant have defined their own personal tone that pervades their body work, stretching from games like Bastion to Pyre. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025 Attachment theory pervades an institution that seems fixated on severing teens’ bonds with parents who are invariably discovered to be, if not complete monsters, at least ill-suited for the task of caring for their own children. Judy Berman, Time, 25 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 There’s a clunkiness that pervades the entire enterprise. Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 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
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • What starts as a plush gel, lathers into a rich foam that penetrates deep to remove all traces of residue.
    Beatrice Zocchi, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The oil penetrates your skin quickly and can help soothe dry, irritated skin.
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • Death permeates life in an echo of Harjo’s films; Four Sheets to the Wind unfolds in the wake of a suicide, while Barking Water chronicles a terminally ill man’s final road trip.
    Judy Berman, Time, 23 Sep. 2025

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“Pervades.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pervades. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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