1
as in suffusing
to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle
dedicated teachers inculcating young minds with a love of learning
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2
as in planting
to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set
a malcontent who inculcated in his offspring an abiding distrust of all civil authority
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Your energetic 5th house hosts the meeting of Mercury and Pluto, suffusing your hobbies with cosmic delight.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Jan. 2026 -
Rafiq suspected that the anxiety suffusing the market had made any pickpockets unlikely to be scoping out potential shoppers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
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This step keeps cuttings from becoming overly moist after planting.—
Barbara Gillette,
The Spruce,
8 Feb. 2026
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Once your spring seed order has arrived from your favorite seed company, waiting to start planting your seeds can be difficult.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Feb. 2026
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Bad Bunny also stands within a much longer Puerto Rican tradition of infusing both joy and protest into music, a tradition in which celebration itself becomes an act of resistance.—
Dr. Carlos A Torre,
Hartford Courant,
7 Feb. 2026
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Boyden and colleagues successfully expanded a biological sample by infusing it with a hydrogel made of sodium acrylate.—
Molly Herring,
Quanta Magazine,
4 Feb. 2026
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The report states that the breeding population of bears is expanding into more cities and towns.—
Sasha Allen,
Hartford Courant,
31 Jan. 2026
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Nuka had lived at the Detroit Zoo from 2011 to 2022, and then was moved to the Toledo Zoo in 2022 for breeding efforts with female polar bear Crystal.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
30 Jan. 2026
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The aggressive and indiscriminate tactics ICE deploys directly disrupt this dynamic, instilling fear and discouraging our immigrant neighbors from leaving their homes to engage in what were once their routine activities.—
Aubrey Jackson Soller,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Feb. 2026
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The offensive tackle was a force to be reckoned with, instilling fear in opposing defenses.—
Brendan Connelly,
Boston Herald,
1 Feb. 2026
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The bill would prohibit the importation, sale, and offer of sale of pets that are transgenic, meaning they are created by implanting a gene from one species into another.—
Kate Wolffe,
Sacbee.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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After implanting him with the device, a now docile Hank reveals that he's already released implanted people into the Wasteland — and that they've been given instructions.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
4 Feb. 2026
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This will come from projects in manufacturing, supply chain and corporate, simplifying processes and embedding technology and AI, Masters said.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Feb. 2026
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The company’s embedding of predictive AI has also bolstered maintenance processes in its physical networks.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Inculcating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inculcating. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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