as in to penetrate
to spread throughout
the smell of freshly baked bread permeated the house
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Recent Examples of permeate
Most of us are used to hearing how microplastics are literally permeating every aspect of our daily lives.
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Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
In addition to wreaking havoc inside the oven, the harmful effects of the self-cleaning function can permeate outside the oven too.
—Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2025
So those would be the sort of broad sectors that I would be focused on for the next leg of AI sort of permeating into the broader stock market.
—Andy Mills, Quartz, 11 Feb. 2025
Though Hyung Tae Kim left NCSoft in 2013, his art style still permeates every aspect of Blade & Soul’s visuals.
—Gabriel Zamora, PCMAG, 11 Feb. 2025
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Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
In addition to wreaking havoc inside the oven, the harmful effects of the self-cleaning function can permeate outside the oven too.
—Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2025
So those would be the sort of broad sectors that I would be focused on for the next leg of AI sort of permeating into the broader stock market.
—Andy Mills, Quartz, 11 Feb. 2025
Though Hyung Tae Kim left NCSoft in 2013, his art style still permeates every aspect of Blade & Soul’s visuals.
—Gabriel Zamora, PCMAG, 11 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for permeate
Verb
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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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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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The movie opens like an old folktale, and that tone pervades the rest of the narrative.—
Jordan Mintzer,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2025
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Perhaps the thriftiness of southern Pennsylvania, the Amish influence, would pervade.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Feb. 2025
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“Permeate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permeate. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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