suffuse
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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
Baumbach runs with their children’s antic energy and lets it suffuse other parts of his film, animating even the story’s more difficult third part with humor and affection that reflect the book’s tone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2022
They would form a ring around him, holding each other by the hand, trying to suffuse him with their healing fluids, but that too failed to endow Nicolas with mental powers.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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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
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
Irony suffuses each and every interaction, to the point that it’s nearly impossible to tell when something, or someone, is sincere.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2023
The heavenly spheres are slowly spinning in their places, making a music that suffuses the cosmos.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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This exquisite writer has once again delivered an incandescent work of fiction — sweet, but never sentimental, infinitely wise and suffused with love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
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
But rearing children is like a long baseball season suffused with an endless series of balls, strikes, hits and misses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
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
The scent of partially combusted oil suffused the air.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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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
And that intense, buttery scent suffusing the journalist Emma Specter’s apartment in Austin, Texas?
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
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
The light suffusing the Court was so plentiful and intense, it hurt their eyes.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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