as in soaks
to wet thoroughly with liquid
saturate your hair with water before applying the dye
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Recent Examples of saturates
Sixty years later, the Spectacle saturates us in ways the Situationists never imagined.
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Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
This gives your poinsettia a long, deep drink that saturates the roots without drowning them.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Dec. 2025
The result is a geomagnetic storm that amplifies the ionospheric and radio disruptions caused by flares and saturates the radiation belts surrounding Earth to such an extent that new belts can suddenly form.
—Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
The deal marks the latest major investment by AT&T to accelerate its fiber and 5G network build-out as the wireless market saturates and internet usage surges.
—CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
For brands, the trend has become an opportunity to market products that speak to the Performative Male; which, in turn, only saturates the dating pool with more artifice that is a turn-off for women.
—Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
This gives your poinsettia a long, deep drink that saturates the roots without drowning them.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Dec. 2025
The result is a geomagnetic storm that amplifies the ionospheric and radio disruptions caused by flares and saturates the radiation belts surrounding Earth to such an extent that new belts can suddenly form.
—Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
The deal marks the latest major investment by AT&T to accelerate its fiber and 5G network build-out as the wireless market saturates and internet usage surges.
—CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
For brands, the trend has become an opportunity to market products that speak to the Performative Male; which, in turn, only saturates the dating pool with more artifice that is a turn-off for women.
—Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for saturates
Verb
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Remove rust with steel wool, vinegar soaks, baking soda paste, or coarse salt scrubs.—
Emily Benda Gaylord,
The Spruce,
17 Jan. 2026
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Long soaks and extreme heat damage wood by swelling and drying it unevenly, making spoons more likely to crack and split.—
Bridget Shirvell,
Martha Stewart,
29 Dec. 2025
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First into his life comes Jessie involved in a shipwreck with her uncle, a past colleague of Mason’s, who drowns in a vicious storm and almost takes Jessie down with him before she is heroically rescued from near death by Mason, who brings her out of the drink and then back to life.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
28 Jan. 2026
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What should be a fast minimum viable product (MVP) becomes a bloated prototype that delays launch and drowns out real user feedback.—
Renae Gregoire,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
Verb
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One of Johnson’s timeliest essays, though, is about Alien, Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror about an extraterrestrial creature that forcibly impregnates a member of a commercial hauling ship, killing him when the alien fetus bursts out of his abdomen.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Throughout Friday, temperatures are expected to fall as rain drenches the area.—
Lauren Caruba,
Dallas Morning News,
23 Jan. 2026
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The campers swim in the animosity that drenches the airwaves and cyberspaces around them.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Nov. 2025
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