saturate
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While there is rain this week, it will not be enough to fully saturate the soil and make a difference to the drought situation.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Revenue grew at greater than 24% a year from 2002 to 2022 when the company began to saturate the market for its customer relationship management software.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
UAVs are seen as a low-cost way to saturate targets and air defenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
But small-time producers already situated within a country’s borders can saturate the market.
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2024
That’s a useful lesson for Coca-Cola or Nike, who have hundreds of millions of dollars to spend on marketing and can afford to saturate all forms of media with their message.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Grief saturates the early pages of Catriona McPherson’s dark mystery “The Dead Room,” in which a young widow leaves her marital home in Hawaii and returns to her native Scotland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Once triggered, the system saturates the house and property with water and firefighting foam, “creating an environment that is too wet to burn,” according to the company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
The dancers wear separates that pop in a sunny array of orange, pink, purple, red and yellow and glow under Nicole Pearce’s lighting design, which saturates the stage with color.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
And as the heavy rain saturates soil and snow, the threat for landslides and avalanches increases.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2024
“A one in a billion—no trillion—anomaly, born from the oddness that saturates your county.”
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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Current dietary guidance generally recommends keeping saturated fat below 10% of daily calories and choosing unsaturated fats when possible.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
"This observation also holds true online and on the street, which are saturated with demands to consume," group president Marie-Amandine Stévenin added.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
His paintings, which look like a mashup of collage and stained glass, are immediate in their impact: Planes of saturated hues snap together in portraits, pictures of parties, and everyday scenes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
For decades, Kennedy says, the government has lied to Americans about saturated fat.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
I unlock the car doors and slide in behind the wheel, both our lips whistling involuntarily as we’re saturated with stale heat.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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Fumes have travelled into the neighbouring Namur province, where authorities had to ask residents to stop saturating emergency phone lines with reports of the smell.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Sabroso maximizes the visual pop and sharp humor that defines every scene, saturating frames in “see me” colors popping citrusy in one moment and fiery in the next, lifting the cast’s audacious, extreme performances.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2025
Landslides can be triggered by rainfall — or, in this case, water from the lengthy firefight — saturating weak or loose soil, causing it to slide downhill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
The windows and patio doors failed in my apartment, sending water surging inside and saturating all of the rugs and much of the furniture.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2024
It spread through him as blood spreads through cloth, saturating his every fiber.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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