as in to penetrate
to spread throughout
the smell of freshly baked bread permeated the house
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Recent Examples of permeate
Storm says fear permeated daily life.
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Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 6 Jan. 2026
The objective permeated throughout conversations before and after Sunday’s season finale loss to the New York Giants.
—Joseph Hoyt, Dallas Morning News, 5 Jan. 2026
Those stats permeated throughout the first half, with the Tide rushing for only 29 yards on 11 carries.
—The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
The increase is a little more than the 25 percent forecast by analysts, and comes with assurances by labor and social security minister Vedat Isikhan that the increase would help more than a third of the working population, which is at minimum wage, and will permeate across sectors.
—Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 31 Dec. 2025
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The watershed also is situated on relatively flat, low-lying and porous terrain, enabling higher tides to penetrate deeper into the freshwater marshes through the vast network of canals that holds the watershed together.—
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Massaging it into the scalp helps stimulate circulation and allows the product to penetrate more effectively.—
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Slow-attack tones emerge and are subsumed back within the haze, like single strands of a spiderweb zooming in and out of focus; the uppermost reaches are suffused in a delicate scrim of what sounds like electronic crickets.—
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Its pages are suffused with love for her mother and for the myriad anonymous Chinese sources and academics who help Chang in researching her historical projects — and suffered blowback as a result.—
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Fear pervades Iran’s capital In Tehran, a witness told the AP that the streets were empty at the sunset call to prayers each night.—
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In addition to which, negativity pervades everything.—
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“Permeate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permeate. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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