all-pervading
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He later wrote: "My lasting impression was of an all-pervading sense of immaturity… I wondered whether the Bohemians shroud themselves in secrecy for reasons no more sinister than they thought it was cool."
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2023
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
Ere she was in her teens she grumbled at her home surroundings, and even fell foul of the all-pervading fur, thereby quarrelling with her bread and butter in more senses than one.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel
