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He later wrote: "My lasting impression was of an all-pervading sense of immaturity… I wondered whether the Bohemians shroud themselves in secrecy for reasons no more sinister than they thought it was cool."

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2023

The light from this epoch, now stretched to microwave wavelengths because of the universe’s subsequent expansion, is detectable as the all-pervading cosmic microwave background.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 18, 2022

“How does one escape this all-pervading thing, exoticized foreknowledge?” he writes.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 6, 2019

This sense of being intertwined with an all-pervading natural network is—not surprisingly—everywhere in a land said to have emerged from a liaison between a blue wolf and a fallow doe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2018

Giant icebergs; fierce storms; cruel nips; silent, unseen, irresistible currents; with ever-changing, treacherous "packs" and "floes," and the all-pervading, relentless cold, are some of these enemies.

From North-Pole Voyages by Zachariah Atwell Mudge


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