as in suffused
to spread throughout
with tie-dyeing, the dye does not interpenetrate the entire fabric
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Since most boar spears had cross-guard features near the spearhead, this was often used to trigger the gun once the spear had penetrated the prey.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Apr. 2025 -
None of the bullets penetrated the glass.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
9 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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Following their first win of the season the night before, a much lighter mood pervaded the Twins clubhouse Wednesday morning despite a forecast full of rain.—
Dan Hayes,
New York Times,
3 Apr. 2025
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All that was needed was for temperatures between 250 and 350 kelvins (–23 and 77 degrees Celsius) to prevail within some of the gas clouds that pervaded the early universe.—
Conor Feehly,
Scientific American,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Interpenetrated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interpenetrated. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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