saturate
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Kate Sheppard, 38, said she prepared for the forecasted heat Sunday days in advance, drinking above her normal water and electrolyte intake to saturate her body with fluids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 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
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
India is also developing swarm drone tactics - deploying large numbers of smaller UAVs to overwhelm and saturate air defences, allowing higher-value assets to penetrate, say experts.
From BBC ● May 9, 2025
When a hot virus multiplies in a host, it can saturate the body with virus particles, from the brain to the skin.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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The harder question is what happens when that market saturates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
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
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
I want so badly to follow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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“If markets were saturated, that would not be a big problem, but with inventories so thin, even the loss of 5-10 million barrels a week will keep prices elevated,” he told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
Authorities from Guerrero to Nayarit warned that Trudy could strengthen, and said heavy rainfall could cause major damage because the ground is already saturated from previous storms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
When soil becomes saturated with moisture, water fills many of the tiny spaces between soil particles, making it more difficult for gases to move through them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Scenes of romance, visions of war and domestic objects all compete for attention in the highly saturated comic-book style that was just being introduced to the broader world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
It fell on ground already saturated, and it filled every dip in every path.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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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
That precipitation pushed runoff from the Appalachian Mountains, saturating the soil and knocking over trees.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2024
Faster than you could say “candy cane,” I was saturating every squirrel-trafficked inch of our backyard using a spray bottle filled with 100% peppermint essential oil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2024
There is no reason why it should not serve as a warning that it is no longer sensible to take the “calculated risk” of saturating our environment with pesticides.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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