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suffuse

[suh-fyooz] / səˈfjuz /


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My guess: The benefits of AI for human decision-making will rapidly suffuse society, while the agent revolution—AIs free to act on their own—will be a lot slower in coming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2026

With each breath, we suffuse our bodies with oxygen-rich air that keeps our organs and tissues healthy and working properly -- and without oxygen, we can survive mere minutes.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 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

That winter seemed to stretch on interminably, but spring finally crept back to West Riding to suffuse the meadow in a glow of pale green.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

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

Love suffuses “Pictures of Ghosts,” a cleareyed, deeply personal and formally inspired rumination on life, death, family, movies and those complicated, invariably haunted places we call home.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

“And if ‘Killers’ miscalibrates its balance of perspectives, it also discovers, in the luminous recesses of Gladstone’s performance, a quality of contemplation that beautifully suffuses and modulates Scorsese’s faster, more frenetic rhythms,” Chang continues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2023

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

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

It’s an airy scene, suffused with mystery and light.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

They looked suffused with happiness, and the glow of victory.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 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

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 air was still, moist, and suffused with the burned-licorice scent of freshly rolled macadam.

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

But beginning around 1820, the year of the Missouri Compromise, slavery began to dominate American politics, suffusing even issues that one might think were unrelated, such as federal funding for infrastructure projects.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025

And that intense, buttery scent suffusing the journalist Emma Specter’s apartment in Austin, Texas?

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023

The singing from the church vibrated through him, suffusing him with a mood of sensitive sorrow.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright


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