imbue
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Though often confined to a wheelchair, his eyesight failing, he managed to imbue everything he did with the same urgency and ebullience that had marked his work for decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
While eager to imbue him with reverential status, the Party is simultaneously wary that almost any discussion of Mao's legacy could rake up uncomfortable memories.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026
"Artificial intelligence lacks feelings and memories; in short, it has no nafas... It can't imbue it into food."
From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025
Vanderbilt strives to imbue “Nuremberg” with a retro appeal that sometimes feels misplaced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
Ernest’s genius, Seaborg perceived, was to draw into his orbit like-minded scientists in every field, not just physics, and imbue them with his own drive to build and perfect his magnificent invention.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Part of that healing process will involve leaning into the humor tat Dodd imbues in his delivery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Ms. Rose imbues Kyra with a warm graciousness but also a firm will.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
I’m a person who creates characters, imbues them with problems and makes up situations for them to struggle through toward emotional epiphanies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
Dragon Hatchling imbues AI with memory that large language models can’t match, according to Pathway, theoretically enabling a new class of continuously learning, adaptive AI systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
He fills immensity,—and if so, then he imbues this little flower with his own life, for he is the life of all things.
From Town and Country; or, life at home and abroad, without and within us by John S. (John Stowell) Adams
They’ve been imbued with family legend and the essential importance of never shedding the immigrant’s mentality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
For those who really read it without the false sense of reverence imbued by generations, Homer’s poem has the feel of a fairy tale.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
"Human conversations are imbued with background assumptions that give meaning and relevance to the words being used," Denning explains.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
And they imbued all that into making that show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
The Negro leader, the “successful” man in Atlanta, is deeply imbued with a sense of responsibility toward his community.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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Rahele Jomepour Bell’s deft use of acrylic paint and soft pastels evokes a world of hazy tranquility, a palette of greens, golds and oranges imbuing each page with a palpable warmth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
But rather than depict a childhood of adversity, her paintings empower the kids within them to claim their own space, imbuing her memories with strength and light.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
She’s training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
To its credit, Lee’s “Wedding Banquet” was adept at imbuing humanity into what could’ve easily been a very unserious comedy.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
Rowan puts his hands on either side of her face and squeezes, imbuing her with an otherworldly gold light.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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