as in to penetrate
to spread throughout
with tie-dyeing, the dye does not interpenetrate the entire fabric
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Recent Examples of interpenetrate
Building and action interpenetrate in the courtyards, arcades, and stairways.
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Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Water interpenetrates it, a gleaming, mercurial counter-spiral spooling into its open rockwork.
—Jennifer L. Roberts, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2023
Negative space and positive materiality interpenetrate in an extraordinary formal condensation of Cubist technique.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
With the degree that the two countries interpenetrate each other’s elite and intelligence establishments, think the Russian military couldn’t get a kill shot on President Volodymyr Zelensky?
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
Traditionalist Catholic ideas and values now interpenetrate conservative American political thought and nearly every political institution of consequence.
—Peter Hammond Schwartz, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021
Spaces and forms interpenetrated. Sculptural concrete projections that housed the chambers and the mayor’s office protruded from a modular facade of offices.
—Joseph Giovannini, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2020
In very recent work, Nikolay Prokof'ev and Boris Svistunov have proposed extremely clean examples involving two interpenetrating superfluids.
—Frank Wilczek, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2019
Two of the figures embrace, and their bodies interpenetrate to form a new anthropomorphic — no, feminamorphic — tree.
—Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 7 July 2018
Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Water interpenetrates it, a gleaming, mercurial counter-spiral spooling into its open rockwork.
—Jennifer L. Roberts, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2023
Negative space and positive materiality interpenetrate in an extraordinary formal condensation of Cubist technique.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
With the degree that the two countries interpenetrate each other’s elite and intelligence establishments, think the Russian military couldn’t get a kill shot on President Volodymyr Zelensky?
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
Traditionalist Catholic ideas and values now interpenetrate conservative American political thought and nearly every political institution of consequence.
—Peter Hammond Schwartz, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021
Spaces and forms interpenetrated. Sculptural concrete projections that housed the chambers and the mayor’s office protruded from a modular facade of offices.
—Joseph Giovannini, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2020
In very recent work, Nikolay Prokof'ev and Boris Svistunov have proposed extremely clean examples involving two interpenetrating superfluids.
—Frank Wilczek, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2019
Two of the figures embrace, and their bodies interpenetrate to form a new anthropomorphic — no, feminamorphic — tree.
—Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 7 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interpenetrate
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Sometimes, the most biting and penetrating films are the ones that poke fun at society’s absurdities—a dynamic that Mark Mylod fully understood with The Menu.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Heavy precipitation events often cause soil runoff and don’t penetrate the ground as well as consistent rainfall over several days.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
14 Mar. 2025
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The Federalist Papers, the 85 essays written to persuade voters to support ratification, were suffused with this optimism.—
Maurizio Valsania,
The Conversation,
5 Mar. 2025
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Girls trying to learn to negotiate the world, repressive institutions in cavernous spaces and obscurely malevolent authority figures, all suffused in an atmosphere of menace, are her recurring motifs.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2025
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Revolutionaries often quoted Cato, which was performed regularly in the Colonies, and the juxtaposition of liberty and death seems to have permeated American culture.—
Cassandra Good,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Mar. 2025
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That attitude of turning lemons into lemonade permeates the organization—and occasionally covers other kinds of fruit.—
Brett Knight,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Others are predicting a return to the anything-goes approach to FARA that pervaded the foreign influence industry before the special counsel’s investigation led to a clampdown in the first Trump administration.—
Kenneth P. Vogel,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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The movie opens like an old folktale, and that tone pervades the rest of the narrative.—
Jordan Mintzer,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2025
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