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suffuse

[suh-fyooz] / səˈfjuz /


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Online tools suffuse the modern classroom, requiring students to navigate Canvas and download readings from the school library.

From The Wall Street Journal May 30, 2026

Nonsurgical options like dermal fillers or fat grafting can suffuse depressions to create a more centered appearance.

From Slate Feb. 22, 2026

For every kilogram of matter that we can see -- from the computer on your desk to distant stars and galaxies -- there are 5 kilograms of invisible matter that suffuse our surroundings.

From Science Daily Jun. 6, 2024

The super-bloom was just beginning to suffuse wide swaths of the slopes in purple and orange.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 14, 2023

The roses flamed up as though with a sudden passion from within; a new and profound significance seemed to suffuse the shining pages of the books.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Ms. Brown’s Erica tries to mediate the tension that suffuses the house, while Mr. Braithwaite’s Leni has a cool humor that also helps ease the fraught dynamic.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 12, 2026

“I was interested in the bittersweet, funeral quality that suffuses Tsai’s film,” Lund says.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 14, 2025

The potent melancholy that suffuses the song, and much of the album, tells you about how well that went.

From New York Times Mar. 8, 2024

As the chicken roasts, the paste blends with the rendered fat from the skin and suffuses the meat with rich, complex flavors.

From Washington Times Oct. 3, 2023

Your Atman will fly from the web of human desire and join the collective consciousness—the infinite soul that suffuses the universe, at once everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

It flew in the face of the mantra of the “quiet professional” that suffused military culture, a kind of sober maturity that was critical to judicious use of deadly force.

From Slate Apr. 13, 2026

The pommel-horse shape is accented with pencil-thin metallic piping and soft, suffused light pools in the hollows.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 8, 2026

Consider all that has happened in the past six months to erase the bearish sentiment that suffused our spring survey—and Wall Street.

From Barron's Oct. 23, 2025

Ateret and Tamar seemed to be gentle souls, suffused with religious fervour.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2025

The reporter—Theodore Dreiser—was young and suffused with a garish self-confidence that drew the attention of the young women.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Shalit became a popular fixture in American households from the 1970s through to his retirement in 2010, stylistically standing out with his thick-framed spectacles, polkadot bowties and frizzed hair, suffusing his segments with pun-filled wordplay.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

As you chew, the cardamom bits send out little bolts of flavor, suffusing the cake with a lovely scent of spice.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 21, 2025

From them, Lovato learned to throw her body into her otherwise supple voice, suffusing every peak and valley of a song with a magnitude fitting for rock.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2022

It is best eaten in a large bowl, the sauce suffusing each nook and cranny of the chicken and noodles.

From Salon Nov. 30, 2021

I stare at Gideon, a warm feeling suffusing my chest.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland




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