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saturate

[sach-uh-reyt, sach-er-it, -uh-reyt] / ˈsætʃ əˌreɪt, ˈsætʃ ər ɪt, -əˌreɪt /


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Revenue grew at greater than 24% a year from 2002 to 2022 when the company began to saturate the market for its customer relationship management software.

From Barron's May 27, 2026

The toxic content, AI-generated rumor cycles and coordinated inauthentic activity that already saturate the information environment are now sufficient, on their own, to move prediction-market prices in profitable directions.

From The Wall Street Journal May 5, 2026

India is also developing swarm drone tactics - deploying large numbers of smaller UAVs to overwhelm and saturate air defences, allowing higher-value assets to penetrate, say experts.

From BBC May 9, 2025

But small-time producers already situated within a country’s borders can saturate the market.

From Salon Nov. 14, 2024

I'll saturate the ground with most of the water I have.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Grief saturates the early pages of Catriona McPherson’s dark mystery “The Dead Room,” in which a young widow leaves her marital home in Hawaii and returns to her native Scotland.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

Once triggered, the system saturates the house and property with water and firefighting foam, “creating an environment that is too wet to burn,” according to the company.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2025

And as the heavy rain saturates soil and snow, the threat for landslides and avalanches increases.

From Seattle Times Jan. 28, 2024

Among the restricted or banned books in these states are biographies of Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. No wonder fear saturates publishing.

From Salon May 30, 2023

“A one in a billion—no trillion—anomaly, born from the oddness that saturates your county.”

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

So now, to keep our interest from drying out like a pitch on a hot summer day, the goal should be to keep the market saturated with soccer.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 28, 2026

The region's intensive care units were "saturated," he warned.

From BBC Jun. 25, 2026

Soccer has struggled to gain traction among the American public as mainstream American sports culture is saturated by football, basketball, baseball and hockey.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

They contain nitrates, high levels of sodium and saturated fats, and aromatic hydrocarbons that increase the risk of cancer, hypertension, and heart disease.

From MarketWatch Jun. 21, 2026

Drip, drip, drip, into the white gravel until, saturated, it could no longer receive and a second tiny pool appeared.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

Sabroso maximizes the visual pop and sharp humor that defines every scene, saturating frames in “see me” colors popping citrusy in one moment and fiery in the next, lifting the cast’s audacious, extreme performances.

From Salon Dec. 17, 2025

That precipitation pushed runoff from the Appalachian Mountains, saturating the soil and knocking over trees.

From Slate Oct. 1, 2024

Could there be a danger of video game adaptations going the same way as Marvel movies and losing audience interest by saturating the market?

From BBC Apr. 20, 2024

The water lines to his neighborhood have had multiple breaks due to the ground shifting, Cruz said, and residents are worried that leaks will lead to more water saturating the soil.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 22, 2023

In the spring he went to Venice alone for a week, the trip he’d planned for the two of them, saturating himself in its ancient, melancholy beauty.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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