as in to suffuse
to spread throughout
the delicious scent of roasting turkey pervaded the house
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More than one commentator has compared the sense of crisis and fear that pervades America’s fragmented political culture to the situation in Weimar Germany in the years before that democratic government gave way to authoritarianism.
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Christine Adams / Made By History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
Our research also highlights the stark racial disparities that pervade Maryland’s justice system.
—Jasmine L. Tyler, Baltimore Sun, 6 Feb. 2025
Notions that children are nearly immune to COVID and don’t need to be vaccinated have pervaded.
—Blake Murdoch, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2024
Schlesinger’s joke about the doomed, obsolete 13-letter Hollywoodland sign hints at the self-hatred that now pervades the Anglosphere and suggests that the immolation starts from the inside.
—Armond White, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
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Christine Adams / Made By History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
Our research also highlights the stark racial disparities that pervade Maryland’s justice system.
—Jasmine L. Tyler, Baltimore Sun, 6 Feb. 2025
Notions that children are nearly immune to COVID and don’t need to be vaccinated have pervaded.
—Blake Murdoch, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2024
Schlesinger’s joke about the doomed, obsolete 13-letter Hollywoodland sign hints at the self-hatred that now pervades the Anglosphere and suggests that the immolation starts from the inside.
—Armond White, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pervade
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Girls trying to learn to negotiate the world, repressive institutions in cavernous spaces and obscurely malevolent authority figures, all suffused in an atmosphere of menace, are her recurring motifs.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2025
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They are also suffused with a subtle but withering social satire.—
Richard Fausset,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Some oils do indeed make your hair look and feel greasy by just coating the hair shaft, but others like tsubaki seed oil, actually penetrate the cuticle and melt into the hair.—
Arden Fanning Andrews,
Vogue,
4 Mar. 2025
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No sunlight ever penetrated its depths, and the air is a noxious brew of toxic gases.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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Hunt believes that Laughton’s character and drive to win permeated the room and rubbed off on the Generals’ younger players.—
Joshua Kloke,
The Athletic,
8 Mar. 2025
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Once again there was a sense of the ‘70s (an era marked by Karl Lagerfeld at Chloé) permeating the collection with flouncy blouses styled with maxi skirts (a look that has skyrocketed to the top of my fall wishlist), crop tops, and mostly decorative statement belts.—
Irina Grechko,
refinery29.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Pervade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pervade. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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