as in suffused
to spread throughout
the smell of freshly baked bread permeated the house
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Recent Examples of permeated
The parents of an older girl named Sarah Summers—the very name still carries a shiver of excitement—gave me her old clothes from time to time, in washed, folded stacks that were permeated with a middle-class laundry fragrance, the smell of another world, better than my own.
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Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
The New York Fed noted that AI has still not permeated through the majority of companies in its survey.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
The score, composed by a team led by Gerard K Marino, was cinematic in a way that replicated historical epics like Gladiator that permeated cinema at the time.
—Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The decision to move the shoot to New York reflected the team’s commitment to supporting families, setting a tone of compassion and flexibility that permeated the project.
—Steven Huizar, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025
The shift is only starting to catch up with hype that has permeated the cybersecurity and AI industries for years, especially since ChatGPT was introduced to the public in 2022.
—Kevin Collier, NBC news, 17 Aug. 2025
The group’s zeal permeated to subsequent topics, providing a concrete example of Discover PB president Randall Engstrom’s observation on the purpose of a united community.
—Steven Mihailovich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
Well versed in the Freudian thought that permeated 1950s America, Feiffer and Charles Schulz (the creator of Peanuts) were arguably the first cartoonists to give their characters inner lives.
—Art Spiegelman, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2025
Key parts of the folklore like the Holy Grail, Round Table and powers of Merlin permeated through culture even today, but the origins of the tales are harder to find.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2025
Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
The New York Fed noted that AI has still not permeated through the majority of companies in its survey.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
The score, composed by a team led by Gerard K Marino, was cinematic in a way that replicated historical epics like Gladiator that permeated cinema at the time.
—Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The decision to move the shoot to New York reflected the team’s commitment to supporting families, setting a tone of compassion and flexibility that permeated the project.
—Steven Huizar, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025
The shift is only starting to catch up with hype that has permeated the cybersecurity and AI industries for years, especially since ChatGPT was introduced to the public in 2022.
—Kevin Collier, NBC news, 17 Aug. 2025
The group’s zeal permeated to subsequent topics, providing a concrete example of Discover PB president Randall Engstrom’s observation on the purpose of a united community.
—Steven Mihailovich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
Well versed in the Freudian thought that permeated 1950s America, Feiffer and Charles Schulz (the creator of Peanuts) were arguably the first cartoonists to give their characters inner lives.
—Art Spiegelman, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2025
Key parts of the folklore like the Holy Grail, Round Table and powers of Merlin permeated through culture even today, but the origins of the tales are harder to find.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for permeated
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But the hot gas that suffused the space between the galaxies in each cluster would have crashed head-on.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
11 Sep. 2025
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His narration is a constant pleasure — mournful, wry, and suffused with a world-weary poetry.—
Leila Latif,
IndieWire,
31 Aug. 2025
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Just days after more than a dozen Russian drones penetrated Poland’s airspace, causing NATO jets to scramble and shoot them down, Romania said another drone crossed its borders at the weekend.—
Frederik Pleitgen,
CNN Money,
15 Sep. 2025
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At least 19 drones penetrated Polish airspace in that instance, according to Warsaw.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
14 Sep. 2025
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Long before its history of spying on students became widely known, the ADL’s weaponization of victimhood had already pervaded our public schools.—
Sahar Mustafah
August 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
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The original Alien came out at the end of a decade defined in part by stagflation, corporate consolidation, globalism, and a general sense of cynicism that pervaded American culture.—
James Grebey,
Vulture,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Permeated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permeated. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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