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suffuses

  • present tense form of suffuse (3rd person singular).

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Ms. Brown’s Erica tries to mediate the tension that suffuses the house, while Mr. Braithwaite’s Leni has a cool humor that also helps ease the fraught dynamic.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 12, 2026

“And if ‘Killers’ miscalibrates its balance of perspectives, it also discovers, in the luminous recesses of Gladstone’s performance, a quality of contemplation that beautifully suffuses and modulates Scorsese’s faster, more frenetic rhythms,” Chang continues.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 22, 2023

As the chicken roasts, the paste blends with the rendered fat from the skin and suffuses the meat with rich, complex flavors.

From Washington Times Oct. 3, 2023

Unease about Mr. Biden’s age suffuses Democratic circles.

From New York Times Jun. 4, 2023

The heavenly spheres are slowly spinning in their places, making a music that suffuses the cosmos.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife