all-pervading

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The light from this epoch, now stretched to microwave wavelengths because of the universe’s subsequent expansion, is detectable as the all-pervading cosmic microwave background.

From Scientific American • Apr. 18, 2022

As for having time to maintain those relationships, you can tell yourself whatever you want; Google Calendar, and your all-pervading exhaustion and irritability, will tell you otherwise.

From The Guardian • Sep. 1, 2020

“How does one escape this all-pervading thing, exoticized foreknowledge?” he writes.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 6, 2019

This sense of being intertwined with an all-pervading natural network is—not surprisingly—everywhere in a land said to have emerged from a liaison between a blue wolf and a fallow doe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2018

And the shafts of daylight from either side of the cave converged upon the whiteness of his head, so that he was like a saint, solemn and magnificent, surrounded by the all-pervading gloom.

From Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure by Gilson, Charles