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pervasive

[per-vey-siv] / pərˈveɪ sɪv /


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Hot pepper sauce in Caribbean cuisine is as pervasive as ketchup in the US.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered the wealthy finance hub to resolve housing woes that are the result of decades of pervasive inequality, an acute housing shortage and eye-watering rents.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

People are just afraid or they don’t want the hassle, and it is pervasive.

From Slate • May 26, 2026

“But it’s just morphed into something much harder to see and much more pervasive and more influential. It’s part of normal culture.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 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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