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as in infuses
to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle
she was suffused with an overwhelming feeling of liberation as her horse broke into a gallop
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as in penetrates
to spread throughout
a living room suffused with warm sunlight
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Recent Examples of suffuses
Patriotism suffuses the Made in America movement.
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Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 29 Nov. 2025
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
Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 29 Nov. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for suffuses
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The resulting menu infuses Asian flavors into coffee drinks.—
Maddie Connors,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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His live-wire performance, seemingly inspired by numerous previous screen depictions of psychopathic bad guys, infuses the proceedings with welcome kinetic energy.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Feb. 2026
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The process is arduous, spanning days or weeks of boiling and soaking in syrup, but when sugar properly penetrates fruit’s cellular structure, not only does the appearance become almost incandescent, but the microbes that cause spoilage can’t survive.—
Hannah Walhout,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
3 Feb. 2026
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The aerator penetrates and removes a cigar size piece of soil and distributes it on the soil surface.—
Calvin Finch,
San Antonio Express-News,
30 Jan. 2026
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Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia only in 1991, and for this young nation, sport imbues it with a sense of pride.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Kikuchi, for her part, imbues the character with dimensions by turns gentle and thorny, but Haru’s unwillingness to meaningfully confront her loss is a blind spot that ends up applied to the story as a whole.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2026
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The 4chan logic that turned even the most hideous news and ideas into empty entertainment pervades everything on the internet now—more proof that lol, nothing matters.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2026
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Though Abuja claims to be ramping up its campaign against radical militias, hundreds of people have been killed or kidnapped so far this year, underscoring the lawlessness that pervades swaths of the country.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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The Legislature took a huge step towards securing our water future by passing HJR 7, which invests $1 billion a year to protect our water infrastructure.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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Chubb invests more than $1 billion annually in technology.—
Kevin J. Conlan,
Hartford Courant,
9 Feb. 2026
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Much of the crowd has–or knows someone who has, contributed to the sense of community that permeates the space.—
Jessica Chapel,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Feb. 2026
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Strategies are prone to failure when a lack of clarity permeates the company.—
Russ Bredholt Jr,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Feb. 2026
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How about the person who fills your water glass, or clears the empty plates?—
Lynne Sullivan,
The Providence Journal,
15 Feb. 2026
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Armchair analysis fills the space that is created by the absence of available facts.—
Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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Instead, the committee said young children should receive one vaccine for chickenpox and a different shot known as MMR that inoculates against measles, mumps and rubella.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
24 Sep. 2025
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Develop Character To Combat Cognitive Warfare Developing and strengthening character inoculates individuals.—
Mary Crossan,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Suffuses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suffuses. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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