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interpenetrate, percolate (into), permeate, riddle, suffuse, transfuse
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That means deliberately veering Pasjoli’s opening menu away from overly rich or obvious staples that pervade many French menus in America. — Los Angeles Times, "With Pasjoli, one of L.A.’s best tasting-menu chefs goes à la carte French," 10 Sep. 2019 During solar minimum, more cosmic rays can reach the strong magnetic field near the sun’s surface and get mirrored, instead of being deflected prematurely by the turbulent tangle of field lines that pervades the inner solar system at other times. — Quanta Magazine, "The Sun Is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined," 27 Aug. 2019 Jasmine for similarly calling out the harmful stereotypes about people of color that pervade the industry to this day. — oregonlive.com, "And just like that, our week in Corvallis has come to an end (but I don’t want it to)," 20 July 2019 But senior department officials, county leaders and prosecutors have failed to root out a subculture of inked clubs that pervades the nation’s largest sheriff’s agency. — Maya Lau, latimes.com, "Deputy gangs have survived decades of lawsuits and probes. Can the FBI stop them?," 14 July 2019 Today, the same alchemy that pervades his original experience carried over to all of the spin-off productions, getting a fresh jolt of creative energy each time -- including, yet again, with the new incarnation. — Scott Huver, CNN, "The 'Circle of Life' brings singer Lebo M back to 'The Lion King'," 17 July 2019 Seek out unique and wonderful modern structures intermingled with age-old buildings, and capture symbols of the palpable creative energy that pervades this Bohemian capital. — National Geographic, "Prague High School Photography Workshop," 17 June 2019 Employment was hard to find for returning soldiers, there were strikes and Americans' fears about the potential rise of communism pervaded. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "To Remember the Chicago Race Riot of 1919, Commemoration Project Looks to Public Art," 30 July 2019 The electrons then smash into the ambient photons that pervade the universe as a part of the cosmic microwave background and send them speeding through the galaxy. — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, "Highest energy light ever seen traced to Crab Nebula," 8 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'pervade.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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