as in suffused
to spread throughout
the smell of freshly baked bread permeated the house
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Recent Examples of permeated
Released post-Columbine and heavily influenced by that tragedy, Scream 3 walks back from the gruesome violence and flashes of genuine nastiness that permeated the previous installments.
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Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Sep. 2025
This season was dedicated to creating an uplifting experience, and that philosophy permeated every aspect of his collection debut on the New York runway.
—Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 18 Sep. 2025
The parents of an older girl named Sarah Summers—the very name still carries a shiver of excitement—gave me her old clothes from time to time, in washed, folded stacks that were permeated with a middle-class laundry fragrance, the smell of another world, better than my own.
—Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
The New York Fed noted that AI has still not permeated through the majority of companies in its survey.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
The score, composed by a team led by Gerard K Marino, was cinematic in a way that replicated historical epics like Gladiator that permeated cinema at the time.
—Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The decision to move the shoot to New York reflected the team’s commitment to supporting families, setting a tone of compassion and flexibility that permeated the project.
—Steven Huizar, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025
The shift is only starting to catch up with hype that has permeated the cybersecurity and AI industries for years, especially since ChatGPT was introduced to the public in 2022.
—Kevin Collier, NBC news, 17 Aug. 2025
The group’s zeal permeated to subsequent topics, providing a concrete example of Discover PB president Randall Engstrom’s observation on the purpose of a united community.
—Steven Mihailovich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for permeated
Verb
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The film certainly steers clear of Emmerichian overdrive, but it is suffused with hopelessness — on both an intimate and an epic scale.—
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But the hot gas that suffused the space between the galaxies in each cluster would have crashed head-on.—
Verb
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Poland requested Article 4 consultations with NATO after Russian drones penetrated its airspace and that of Romania in separate incidents earlier this month.—
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The name of the series has also penetrated the cultural lexicon as a way to refer to someone who has been deceptive about their identity online.—
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From there, kabocha likely pervaded other parts of Asia through trade.—
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Long before its history of spying on students became widely known, the ADL’s weaponization of victimhood had already pervaded our public schools.—
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“Permeated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permeated. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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