permeate
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Our Journal correspondent Yoko Kubota, who recently left the country after eight years, reflects on how a distrust of foreigners has come to permeate everyday life in China.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
These fields permeate every cubic centimeter of space and time.
From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026
“I think that’s the other component I failed to mention: My reach has been able to permeate the entire globe. Now I can bring that reach directly to the Sun Rose.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2026
For years, scientists have warned that the risk of damaging floods is dramatically increased after intense wildfires, as rain struggles to permeate the burnt-out forest floor and flows encounter little resistance from the remaining vegetation.
From Barron's • Oct. 11, 2025
Neither experience has prepared me for the wordless, eardrum-piercing, fear-inducing sirens that now permeate 13.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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