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pervasive

[per-vay-siv] / pərˈveɪ sɪv /


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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

“The fateful agency of women,” she writes, “and their power over life and death” is pervasive throughout the culture’s mythology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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

Misuse of therapy speak, or the casual use of clinical psychology terms, is a pervasive problem, and one that therapists note actually shuts down communication, as opposed to improving it.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 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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