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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

And the shafts of daylight from either side of the cave converged upon the whiteness of his head, so that he was like a saint, solemn and magnificent, surrounded by the all-pervading gloom.

From Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure by Charles Gilson




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