as in to suffuse
to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle
her training at the school for the deaf imbued her with a sense of purpose that she had never known before
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But rather than holding herself at a remove, Tsushima imbues these traumatic and transformative decades with a vivid and disturbing vitality, and uncovers in the process an unsettled zone where nothing is made whole, and not even the dead can rest.
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Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2025
Beyond weaponizing the Bible to attack the trans community, there’s another hurtful trend related to the anti-trans crusade: Right-wing forces are attempting to imbue their twisted version of Christianity into all layers of public life without any regard for different religious perspectives.
—Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, TIME, 17 Mar. 2025
Columbia was also ordered to overhaul its admissions process and recruitment of international students, and imbue campus security with the power of arrest.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 19 Mar. 2025
The result of Flaherty simply hearing out people like Cory, Nicole and Daniel is shattering confessions and crescendos, which imbues the film with the kind of urgency that no fact or figure could hope to.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 18 Mar. 2025
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Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2025
Beyond weaponizing the Bible to attack the trans community, there’s another hurtful trend related to the anti-trans crusade: Right-wing forces are attempting to imbue their twisted version of Christianity into all layers of public life without any regard for different religious perspectives.
—Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, TIME, 17 Mar. 2025
Columbia was also ordered to overhaul its admissions process and recruitment of international students, and imbue campus security with the power of arrest.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 19 Mar. 2025
The result of Flaherty simply hearing out people like Cory, Nicole and Daniel is shattering confessions and crescendos, which imbues the film with the kind of urgency that no fact or figure could hope to.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 18 Mar. 2025
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“Imbue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imbue. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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