suffuse
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Online tools suffuse the modern classroom, requiring students to navigate Canvas and download readings from the school library.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
Nonsurgical options like dermal fillers or fat grafting can suffuse depressions to create a more centered appearance.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2026
With each breath, we suffuse our bodies with oxygen-rich air that keeps our organs and tissues healthy and working properly -- and without oxygen, we can survive mere minutes.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
The super-bloom was just beginning to suffuse wide swaths of the slopes in purple and orange.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023
Ethos will suffuse all that follows, logos and pathos alike.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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Ms. Brown’s Erica tries to mediate the tension that suffuses the house, while Mr. Braithwaite’s Leni has a cool humor that also helps ease the fraught dynamic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
The potent melancholy that suffuses the song, and much of the album, tells you about how well that went.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
And if “Killers” miscalibrates its balance of perspectives, it also discovers, in the luminous recesses of Gladstone’s performance, a quality of contemplation that beautifully suffuses and modulates Scorsese’s faster, more frenetic rhythms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
As the chicken roasts, the paste blends with the rendered fat from the skin and suffuses the meat with rich, complex flavors.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 3, 2023
Your Atman will fly from the web of human desire and join the collective consciousness—the infinite soul that suffuses the universe, at once everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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The experiment might sound sentimental, but Chakraborty, the production’s secret weapon, maintains a scientific restraint, albeit one suffused with maternal anguish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Since then, every major chapter of Trump’s story has been suffused with the gleam of his favorite metal.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
The pommel-horse shape is accented with pencil-thin metallic piping and soft, suffused light pools in the hollows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
Consider all that has happened in the past six months to erase the bearish sentiment that suffused our spring survey—and Wall Street.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
He buried his head in his bombsight until his bombs were away; when he looked up, everything inside the ship was suffused in a weird orange glow.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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Shalit became a popular fixture in American households from the 1970s through to his retirement in 2010, stylistically standing out with his thick-framed spectacles, polkadot bowties and frizzed hair, suffusing his segments with pun-filled wordplay.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
As you chew, the cardamom bits send out little bolts of flavor, suffusing the cake with a lovely scent of spice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
From them, Lovato learned to throw her body into her otherwise supple voice, suffusing every peak and valley of a song with a magnitude fitting for rock.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
It is best eaten in a large bowl, the sauce suffusing each nook and cranny of the chicken and noodles.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2021
Then, while Matt watched with delight and pride suffusing his face, she unfolded it and held it to the window light.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
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