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as in imbued
to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle
she was suffused with an overwhelming feeling of liberation as her horse broke into a gallop
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as in penetrated
to spread throughout
a living room suffused with warm sunlight
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Verb
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As men turned to practical, less frivolous garments, their shoe heels also remained sensible — though not for women, whose heel heights were imbued with complex social and political implications with every added or subtracted half-inch.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN,
13 Mar. 2025 -
As many transgender people know, even the most mundane objects — a necktie, a name badge, a dress — can be imbued with intense personal meaning.—
Emma Cieslik,
Them,
13 Mar. 2025
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Since most boar spears had cross-guard features near the spearhead, this was often used to trigger the gun once the spear had penetrated the prey.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Apr. 2025
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None of the bullets penetrated the glass.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
9 Apr. 2025
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The leaves of others on the list, such as creeping thyme and creeping rosemary, are infused with a scent that permeates the garden over the entire season.—
Rita Pelczar,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Apr. 2025
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Importing Text As Prompting Skill There are circumstances involving importing text into generative AI that require careful skill and necessitate the right types of prompts to get the text suitably brought in and properly infused.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Following their first win of the season the night before, a much lighter mood pervaded the Twins clubhouse Wednesday morning despite a forecast full of rain.—
Dan Hayes,
New York Times,
3 Apr. 2025
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All that was needed was for temperatures between 250 and 350 kelvins (–23 and 77 degrees Celsius) to prevail within some of the gas clouds that pervaded the early universe.—
Conor Feehly,
Scientific American,
4 Mar. 2025
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Well versed in the Freudian thought that permeated 1950s America, Feiffer and Charles Schulz (the creator of Peanuts) were arguably the first cartoonists to give their characters inner lives.—
Art Spiegelman,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2025
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Key parts of the folklore like the Holy Grail, Round Table and powers of Merlin permeated through culture even today, but the origins of the tales are harder to find.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
7 Apr. 2025
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Analytics and technology have flooded the sport.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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Their main food source vanished after decades of pollution flooded the Lagoon — and the species’ most important home on the East Coast turned into a graveyard.—
Bethany Barnes,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Apr. 2025
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There are hiking trails ranging from beginner-friendly to near-vertical scrambles, Gilded Age mansions filled with rich history, contemporary art destinations, miles of pastoral farmland and charming small towns.—
Ingrid K. Williams,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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Shaw has the benefit of hitting in a lineup filled with talent.—
Sahadev Sharma,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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But Detroit has invested significant draft capital in defensemen since Steve Yzerman took over as general manager, and many of those young players are now entering or nearing the NHL.—
Max Bultman,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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That would be a serious disappointment for a team that invested a lot in this season’s roster.—
Shayna Goldman,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Suffused.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suffused. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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