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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

That winter seemed to stretch on interminably, but spring finally crept back to West Riding to suffuse the meadow in a glow of pale green.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

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

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

That sets it decidedly apart from the horror that swiftly and unrelentingly suffuses “Sorcerer,” his masterly nail-biter about four damned men making a journey through a Colombian heart of darkness.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2023

Unease about Mr. Biden’s age suffuses Democratic circles.

From New York Times Jun. 4, 2023

The heavenly spheres are slowly spinning in their places, making a music that suffuses the cosmos.

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

The experiment might sound sentimental, but Chakraborty, the production’s secret weapon, maintains a scientific restraint, albeit one suffused with maternal anguish.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 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

The pommel-horse shape is accented with pencil-thin metallic piping and soft, suffused light pools in the hollows.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 8, 2026

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

When she recalled it, she was suffused with a feeling of loss.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

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

And that intense, buttery scent suffusing the journalist Emma Specter’s apartment in Austin, Texas?

From New York Times Feb. 13, 2023

And curiously, this isn't the first time in history that suffusing nationalism and the concept of property into science caused irreversible harm.

From Salon Nov. 14, 2021

The light suffusing the Court was so plentiful and intense, it hurt their eyes.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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