saturate
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UAVs are seen as a low-cost way to saturate targets and air defenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
These creations, often presented as real, saturate social feeds with content ranging from fake Spotify bands to TikTok videos claiming to show explosions on the frontlines in Ukraine.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
“It instead launched a campaign to manipulate and saturate the streaming services and airwaves.”
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2024
But small-time producers already situated within a country’s borders can saturate the market.
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2024
But in the event of a nuclear accident, people who may be exposed to iodine 131 can take potassium iodide tablets, which provide enough non-radioactive iodine 127 to saturate the thyroid.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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And as the market for these types of businesses saturates, creator-founders can no longer guarantee their brands will succeed off the back of their celebrity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
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
“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
Among the restricted or banned books in these states are biographies of Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. No wonder fear saturates publishing.
From Salon ● May 30, 2023
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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Traditional dietary advice has often emphasized reducing specific components, such as saturated fat.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
“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
Major cities like Paris, São Paulo, Amsterdam and Vienna are saturated with surveillance cameras, Kelly said, which is helping police with the chase.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The Environment Agency has said that while flooding is not guaranteed, the odds of repeated storms, prolonged rain and saturated catchments are higher than average this winter.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Her secret prophylaxis was a white bag, filled and saturated with camphor, which she kept hidden in her bosom.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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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
That precipitation pushed runoff from the Appalachian Mountains, saturating the soil and knocking over trees.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 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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