Example Sentences

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Mazzara’s comments, she said, show how that tone has permeated all facets of the agency.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

The sense that Buxton's best days - Britain's best days, even - lay behind it has permeated the minds of these teenagers, too.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

When Sagan and his colleagues pointed Galileo at Earth, they invented a scientific framework for looking for signs of life on these other worlds — one that has permeated every search for such biosignatures since.

From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2023

This staffing strategy has permeated hospitals, and particularly emergency rooms, that seek to reduce their top expense: physician labor.

From Salon • Apr. 10, 2023

And from the storefront floated the aroma of toasting maize, which has permeated Mexico and Central America for thousands of years.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann