as in to penetrate
to spread throughout
with tie-dyeing, the dye does not interpenetrate the entire fabric
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Recent Examples of interpenetrate
Those canyons provide thousands of patches of natural habitat that interpenetrate the edges of greater Los Angeles.
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Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
The works that were being presented onstage, both blackface and ballet, were addressing themes that interpenetrated everyday life.
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Chava Pearl Lansky,
JSTOR Daily,
30 July 2025
The strong medicine of Zen and other mystical traditions can flip us into a state of experiencing our whole Self—a boundless, selfless Self that interpenetrates with all that is.
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Ginny Whitelaw,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
Building and action interpenetrate in the courtyards, arcades, and stairways.
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Thomas Meaney,
The New Yorker,
25 Nov. 2024
Water interpenetrates it, a gleaming, mercurial counter-spiral spooling into its open rockwork.
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Jennifer L. Roberts,
The Atlantic,
9 Aug. 2023
Negative space and positive materiality interpenetrate in an extraordinary formal condensation of Cubist technique.
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Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Oct. 2022
With the degree that the two countries interpenetrate each other’s elite and intelligence establishments, think the Russian military couldn’t get a kill shot on President Volodymyr Zelensky?
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Holman W. Jenkins,
WSJ,
12 Aug. 2022
Traditionalist Catholic ideas and values now interpenetrate conservative American political thought and nearly every political institution of consequence.
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Peter Hammond Schwartz,
The New Republic,
3 Feb. 2021
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
The works that were being presented onstage, both blackface and ballet, were addressing themes that interpenetrated everyday life.
—
Chava Pearl Lansky,
JSTOR Daily,
30 July 2025
The strong medicine of Zen and other mystical traditions can flip us into a state of experiencing our whole Self—a boundless, selfless Self that interpenetrates with all that is.
—
Ginny Whitelaw,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
Building and action interpenetrate in the courtyards, arcades, and stairways.
—
Thomas Meaney,
The New Yorker,
25 Nov. 2024
Water interpenetrates it, a gleaming, mercurial counter-spiral spooling into its open rockwork.
—
Jennifer L. Roberts,
The Atlantic,
9 Aug. 2023
Negative space and positive materiality interpenetrate in an extraordinary formal condensation of Cubist technique.
—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Oct. 2022
With the degree that the two countries interpenetrate each other’s elite and intelligence establishments, think the Russian military couldn’t get a kill shot on President Volodymyr Zelensky?
—
Holman W. Jenkins,
WSJ,
12 Aug. 2022
Traditionalist Catholic ideas and values now interpenetrate conservative American political thought and nearly every political institution of consequence.
—
Peter Hammond Schwartz,
The New Republic,
3 Feb. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interpenetrate
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Education officials visited the company’s headquarters to see how the product worked and found that bullets did not penetrate the glass.
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Israel has a long track record of targeting senior Iranian military officers and government officials and successfully penetrating the Iranian regime’s security.
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His brow is porcelain-smooth and suffused with light, his locks glossy and curled, his nose straight and regular.
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The seductive serenity of the Alps on a sunny day suffused the scene.
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Whatever juju, imagined or self-made, permeating throughout the Braves’ roster over the last few weeks was exorcised Wednesday.
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Advertisement The captain’s drive has permeated to the entire team.
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Excellence in sport is merely a glimpse into the resolve, grit, and talent pervading communities across the continent.
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But Klug wasn’t sure any individual Democrat could outrun the negative perception that pervades a state where the party has floundered of late.
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“Interpenetrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interpenetrate. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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