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[im-byoo] / ɪmˈbju /


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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

Blurred faces and hazy photography imbue much of the film with the sense of trying to remember a dream.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 15, 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

So when we’re constructing it, we tried to imbue as much meaning as we could put into it and hopefully that would come through.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 19, 2024

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

What’s more, the histrionic grandeur she imbues the scene with overshadows the dramatic revelation that follows: the reading of the Delphic oracle’s judgment that she is indeed innocent, and Leontes is “a jealous tyrant.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

MacKay imbues this inarticulate everyman with a guarded vulnerability.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

Ms. Clark imbues Hillcrest with eerie metaphoric resonance, making it both forbidding and tenderly familiar.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

Taylor imbues a grave defiance in Perfidia, rounding out what could be a one-note character in someone else’s hands into a moving, heartbreaking portrait of a rebel.

From Salon Sep. 28, 2025

The saffron tea-rose is an exotic of exotics, and the daintiest of fine ladies bears it in her jewelled fingers to the opera, and there imbues it with the languid ecstasy of an Italian melody.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

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

The new LP is imbued with various Latin genre fusions.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 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

I’d felt so brazen tonight, like the Halloween costume had imbued me with a new personality, one more worthy of Adam, of my family.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

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

Halle Berry feels like a big sister, always imbuing a bit of sagacity but distinct youthfulness into every film she does.

From Salon May 10, 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

After forging the blade, she had spent another three months using Transformation to engrave the weapon, imbuing it with its magical properties.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee




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