as in to penetrate
to spread throughout
the smell of freshly baked bread permeated the house
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Recent Examples of permeate
Survivor: Winners at War A season filled with pure joy, and that feeling of joy and celebration permeated the entire season starting with a collection of incredible players and personalities.
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Dalton Ross, EW.com, 15 May 2025
Releasing Rodgers would prompt a pertinent question that permeates this entire franchise: Is there anyone in the organization worth replacing him on the roster?
Dubón, he of a .524 OPS, would presumably become the everyday second baseman in Rodgers’ absence.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 7 May 2025
Instead of a blazing back alley permeated with the stench of garbage and plagued by rats, residents find a lush and usable green space, cooled by the shade of tall perimeter buildings and by heat-absorbing vegetation.
—Alicia Pederson, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2025
The #MeToo movement, in particular, has laid bare the culture of coercion and abuse that permeates every institution and created space for women to feel supported by online communities.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2025
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Dalton Ross, EW.com, 15 May 2025
Releasing Rodgers would prompt a pertinent question that permeates this entire franchise: Is there anyone in the organization worth replacing him on the roster?
Dubón, he of a .524 OPS, would presumably become the everyday second baseman in Rodgers’ absence.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 7 May 2025
Instead of a blazing back alley permeated with the stench of garbage and plagued by rats, residents find a lush and usable green space, cooled by the shade of tall perimeter buildings and by heat-absorbing vegetation.
—Alicia Pederson, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2025
The #MeToo movement, in particular, has laid bare the culture of coercion and abuse that permeates every institution and created space for women to feel supported by online communities.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for permeate
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The sprawling but penetrating 4½ hour documentary about French complicity with its Nazi captors during the war exploded the myth that the French resisted their occupiers.—
Richard Natale,
Variety,
26 May 2025
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The difference between the two can be broken down as follows: Mineral Sunscreens Mineral sunscreens, also known as physical sunscreens, block the sun’s harmful UV rays from penetrating the skin.—
Audrey Noble,
Vogue,
26 May 2025
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His work is suffused with such affection for the edge places where Europe bleeds into its others—Venice, Trieste, Alexandria, Algiers—that the continent becomes all edge.—
Nicholas Dames,
Harpers Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
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Kaunas: Where the Grand Duchy Endures As the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania — one of Europe’s largest and most powerful nations during the Late Middle Ages and early Renaissance — Kaunas is suffused with history.—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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Here’s how: The value of the Higgs field that pervades all of space would have to increase—something physicists liken to rolling a boulder up a hill.—
Jeanna Bryner,
Scientific American,
20 May 2025
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Fixing the flaws that pervade the current market is an opportunity that the 119th Congress should not let slip away.—
Wayne Winegarden,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Permeate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permeate. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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