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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

“I was interested in the bittersweet, funeral quality that suffuses Tsai’s film,” Lund says.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025

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

Your Atman will fly from the web of human desire and join the collective consciousness—the infinite soul that suffuses the universe, at once everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

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