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suffuse

[suh-fyooz] / səˈfjuz /


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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

Similarly, the malaise that has begun to suffuse TikTok feels systemic, market-driven and also potentially existential, suggesting the end of a flourishing era and the precipice of a wasteland period.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

Ethos will suffuse all that follows, logos and pathos alike.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

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

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

Unease about Mr. Biden’s age suffuses Democratic circles.

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2023

The heavenly spheres are slowly spinning in their places, making a music that suffuses the cosmos.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

It’s an airy scene, suffused with mystery and light.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

American life has become suffused with the results of his self-aggrandizement.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 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

The air was stale and still, suffused with the scent of rotten peaches, horse excrement, and partially combusted Illinois anthracite.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

But beginning around 1820, the year of the Missouri Compromise, slavery began to dominate American politics, suffusing even issues that one might think were unrelated, such as federal funding for infrastructure projects.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025

To those without a personal connection to depression, suffusing a film about the subject with color and sunlight could seem incongruous.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2021

The light suffusing the Court was so plentiful and intense, it hurt their eyes.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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