as in to penetrate
to spread throughout
the closing shot of the film is one of those iconic images that has long since percolated into the cultural consciousness
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Although the bullet didn't penetrate Yarl's brain, the impact knocked him to the ground.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
19 Feb. 2025 -
The different weights of hyaluronic acid are able to penetrate different layers of the skin, which results in longer-lasting hydration and a plumper, smoother texture.—
Danielle Cohen,
Glamour,
19 Feb. 2025
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They are also suffused with a subtle but withering social satire.—
Richard Fausset,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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But there’s a tender vulnerability to his characters, and the daffy empathy that suffuses the writing is unique to Arbery.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2025
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In December, the city’s Campaign Finance Board, the body charged with administering the matching funds program, essentially expelled the Adams campaign from the program on the grounds that the mayor’s filings for the matching funds were permeated with fraud.—
Christian Browne,
New York Daily News,
23 Feb. 2025
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In reality, technology has the potential to permeate nearly every effort that drives innovation.—
Mark Pittman,
Forbes,
20 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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Perhaps the thriftiness of southern Pennsylvania, the Amish influence, would pervade.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Feb. 2025
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“Percolate (into).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/percolate%20%28into%29. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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