pervasive
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There’s a pervasive sense that maybe he could have won if he’d just done a few things differently—though what those things are is up for debate.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026
As users realize how pervasive inauthentic posts are, they may shed some of their openness to discovering new products on TikTok or Instagram.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
It’s hard to say how pervasive the phenomenon is, but the examples available to AI leaders so far have them concerned.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
The pervasive threat is a constant topic of conversation in a way that crime was when I was growing up: who had been mugged, whose apartment had been robbed, whose car had been stolen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
If the powerful scientific revolution that had swept through Europe in the eighteenth century had one legacy, it was this: the laws that ran through nature were uniform and pervasive.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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