Example Sentences

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Wanting to leave but feeling trapped in your dynamic is a distinctly human nightmare that has pervaded our species and plagued our ancestors for eons.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2025

AI’s subtle invasion of the real estate industry doesn’t necessarily come as a surprise because the technology has pervaded nearly every profession over the last few years.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2024

But something shifted in 2022, when the uncertainty and destabilization that has pervaded the industry migrated to the movies themselves.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

This energy has pervaded the field of obesity medicine for the past few years.

From Scientific American • Jan. 10, 2023

This tendency has pervaded all the channels of human industry.

From A History of English Prose Fiction by Tuckerman, Bayard