as in suffusing
to spread throughout
the delicious scent of roasting turkey pervaded the house
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The repetitions of Emery answers and responding with Bizot every time, Martinez’s deputy, were signs of his annoyance and symptomatic of how the uncertainty that had enveloped Villa’s summer was now permeating onto the pitch.—
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As any Anderson fan will tell you, the plucky strings and flutes permeating those early films are essential to their aesthetic identities.—
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“Pervading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pervading. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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