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saturate

[sach-uh-rayt, sach-er-it, -uh-rayt] / ˈsætʃ əˌreɪt, ˈsætʃ ər ɪt, -əˌreɪt /


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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

The toxic content, AI-generated rumor cycles and coordinated inauthentic activity that already saturate the information environment are now sufficient, on their own, to move prediction-market prices in profitable directions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

“We go in and saturate an area with high visibility and view patrol,” said Sean Duryee, commissioner of the California Highway Patrol, standing at Newsom’s side.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2025

An estimated 5 million undocumented Mexicans currently live in the United States and the prospect of a mass return could quickly saturate and overwhelm border cities like Juarez and Tijuana.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2025

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

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

Within the first three episodes starring Gatwa, Davies makes room for two broad song and dance numbers, introduces a supervillain played by “RuPaul’s Drag Race” royalty Jinkx Monsoon, and saturates sets with color.

From Salon ● May 10, 2024

Silence saturates the emerald green slopes and basalt cliffs.

From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

“Put all these things together — particularly on the Olympic coast, where we already get an ungodly amount of water falling from the sky, which saturates the sediments,” Fradkin says.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2023

“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

Inside the black silhouette of a farmhouse, a pristine white washing machine appears at an almost monumental scale, set against flat fields of saturated color.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

After all, wasn’t American life saturated with rich men who seemed to get richer without doing any real work?

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

Previously, Zscaler pursued a strategy of “opportunity-based selling” focused on finding new customers to buy its products, an approach that proved challenging as the market became more saturated.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

The island nation's cuisine predominantly consists of fish, vegetables, and rice - and less saturated fat than many Western diets.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Storms brought disaster yesterday when the saturated ground in Aurora County began to resemble a lake in low-lying places.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

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

Priority No. 1, Henrich said, is making sure water is actually saturating the soil.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 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

The liquid seeps into the paper, slowly saturating it until the entire tree glows a rich crimson in a forest of white.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern




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