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pervasive
adjective as in extensive
Strongest matches
common, inescapable, omnipresent, prevalent, rife, ubiquitous, universal
Weak matches
all over the place, can't get away from, general, permeating, pervading, wall-to-wall, widespread
Example Sentences
The core disputes at the court this year reflect controversial factual questions about gender and race: How pervasive and influential is racism in the current day?
Above all, we experience a pervasive miasma of helplessness as we are forced to watch this intolerable train wreck.
“These initiatives really negate and mitigate the very pervasive idea of seeing immigrants as permanent foreigners in this country only because of their color or language,” Syed said.
"No other population is under such restrictions in today's world," it concluded, adding that surveillance had become "more pervasive", helped in part by advances in technology.
The series endures because it’s a “comic masterpiece,” Simon said, but also because it “deals with a pervasive societal problem in America: loneliness.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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