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pervasively

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[per-vays-iv-lee] / pərˈveɪs ɪv li /

adverb

  1. in a way or to an extent that is pervasive.


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As the National Association of Scholars will soon publish in a comprehensive piece by S. Stanley Young and Warren Kindzierski, the Reference Manual pervasively scants the effects of modern science’s irreproducibility crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

“A hostile work environment under Title VII is one where we are being harassed so severely or pervasively as to alter our conditions of employment,” the letter said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

“The defendants rely on a pervasively false narrative of the investigation’s origins,” the prosecutors wrote.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2024

Campuses must be places where all students are free from unprotected harassment, threats, incitements and other actions that severely or pervasively target them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and other protected characteristics.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

The transmission of hereditary traits was just one instance of information flow—but if you looked deeply, squinting your conceptual lenses, it was easy to imagine information moving pervasively through the entire living world.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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