saturate
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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
Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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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
And as the heavy rain saturates soil and snow, the threat for landslides and avalanches increases.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2024
Silence saturates the emerald green slopes and basalt cliffs.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 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
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We live saturated in opinion, reaction and digital noise, a culture that turns other people into content: flattened, accelerated, easy to dismiss.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Human skin is composed primarily of ceramides, fatty acids and cholesterol, which are not classified as saturated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
The creature comes from an extremely hot world with an atmosphere saturated with ammonia.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
The media is saturated with dire findings about the risks of sun exposure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
The color makes everything so saturated, so current, just like real life.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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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
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
Through a series of voice notes and calls, Perkins took BBC News through the storm as it barrelled through her community, bringing howling winds and saturating the area with rain.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024
The water lines to his neighborhood have had multiple breaks due to the ground shifting, Cruz said, and residents are worried that leaks will lead to more water saturating the soil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
I sniff my school uniform, smelling traces of smoke saturating it, too, mingled with an an- imal smell—the reek of guinea pigs.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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