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saturate

[sach-uh-rayt, sach-er-it, -uh-rayt] / ˈsætʃ əˌreɪt, ˈsætʃ ər ɪt, -əˌreɪt /


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Kate Sheppard, 38, said she prepared for the forecasted heat Sunday days in advance, drinking above her normal water and electrolyte intake to saturate her body with fluids.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

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

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

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

The harder question is what happens when that market saturates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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

“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

“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

The University of Toronto findings contribute to this discussion by showing that full-fat dairy can be incorporated into certain diets without the unfavorable short-term metabolic changes that might be expected from its saturated fat content.

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

Scenes of romance, visions of war and domestic objects all compete for attention in the highly saturated comic-book style that was just being introduced to the broader world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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

Toxic amounts of cobalt and aluminum saturated the earth, poisoning the plants.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

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

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

That precipitation pushed runoff from the Appalachian Mountains, saturating the soil and knocking over trees.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2024

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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