pervasive
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Pervasive artificial-intelligence co-workers will be a reality by year end, according to OpenAI.
From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026
Pervasive surveillance, electronic tracking and biometric profiling—together known as “digital dust”—have gutted traditional undercover operations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
The hearing was titled “Confronting Pervasive Antisemitism in K-12 Schools.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2024
Pervasive in the scroll is the artist's "solitude, a sense of isolation subtly expressed and presented...as a state of his life, without self-pity or bitterness," notes Siva Kumar, a leading art historian.
From BBC • Jul. 2, 2023
Pervasive economic conditions are shown crystallized in political pretensions; economic transitions are registered in alterations of front.
From The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South by Mitchell, Broadus
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