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suffuse

[suh-fyooz] / səˈfjuz /


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Online tools suffuse the modern classroom, requiring students to navigate Canvas and download readings from the school library.

From The Wall Street Journal May 30, 2026

Nonsurgical options like dermal fillers or fat grafting can suffuse depressions to create a more centered appearance.

From Slate Feb. 22, 2026

For every kilogram of matter that we can see -- from the computer on your desk to distant stars and galaxies -- there are 5 kilograms of invisible matter that suffuse our surroundings.

From Science Daily Jun. 6, 2024

The super-bloom was just beginning to suffuse wide swaths of the slopes in purple and orange.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 14, 2023

They would form a ring around him, holding each other by the hand, trying to suffuse him with their healing fluids, but that too failed to endow Nicolas with mental powers.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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

Love suffuses “Pictures of Ghosts,” a cleareyed, deeply personal and formally inspired rumination on life, death, family, movies and those complicated, invariably haunted places we call home.

From New York Times Jan. 25, 2024

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

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

Instead, her film is suffused with a rich, casual immediacy.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Since then, every major chapter of Trump’s story has been suffused with the gleam of his favorite metal.

From Slate Jun. 11, 2026

But rearing children is like a long baseball season suffused with an endless series of balls, strikes, hits and misses.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 19, 2025

Consider all that has happened in the past six months to erase the bearish sentiment that suffused our spring survey—and Wall Street.

From Barron's Oct. 23, 2025

Fear suffused Mark as he held on, squeezing his fingers so tightly they turned bone-white.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

Shalit became a popular fixture in American households from the 1970s through to his retirement in 2010, stylistically standing out with his thick-framed spectacles, polkadot bowties and frizzed hair, suffusing his segments with pun-filled wordplay.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

As you chew, the cardamom bits send out little bolts of flavor, suffusing the cake with a lovely scent of spice.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 21, 2025

It is best eaten in a large bowl, the sauce suffusing each nook and cranny of the chicken and noodles.

From Salon Nov. 30, 2021

To those without a personal connection to depression, suffusing a film about the subject with color and sunlight could seem incongruous.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 27, 2021

A group of more interest appeared near the hearth, sitting still amidst the rosy peace and warmth suffusing it.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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