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imbue

[im-byoo] / ɪmˈbju /


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Though often confined to a wheelchair, his eyesight failing, he managed to imbue everything he did with the same urgency and ebullience that had marked his work for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

While eager to imbue him with reverential status, the Party is simultaneously wary that almost any discussion of Mao's legacy could rake up uncomfortable memories.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026

"Artificial intelligence lacks feelings and memories; in short, it has no nafas... It can't imbue it into food."

From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025

Vanderbilt strives to imbue “Nuremberg” with a retro appeal that sometimes feels misplaced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025

“No harm will come to it. I may be suffering from brand-fly poison, but I can still imbue a charm or two.”

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

Part of that healing process will involve leaning into the humor tat Dodd imbues in his delivery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Great TV imbues its fiction with a soul, coaxing us to view fully crafted characters as beings of flesh and blood, or constructed unscripted scenarios as truth.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026

Beacon imbues its portfolio companies with a central AI-enabled operating system to help them deeply analyze their businesses; the goal is to find tasks to automate, raise productivity and grow profit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Mr. Bernthal, an Emmy winner for “The Bear,” imbues Sonny with a pinballing energy as he gabbles orders at the hostages and begins flailing negotiations with the cops massing outside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

The movements of the astral body flow towards the larynx, where they are seized by the I; through their help the I imbues the larynx with the faculty of producing these sounds itself.

From Man or Matter by Ernst Lehrs

Her family imbued in her a love for cinema.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Some offices or Cabinet posts are just imbued with more power than others.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

Now, with her latest show Youth, Horgan puts the spotlight on 50-something women, imbued with her trademark tightly balanced mix of hilarity and pathos.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

"Human conversations are imbued with background assumptions that give meaning and relevance to the words being used," Denning explains.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

As for the argument from design, it was fundamentally different from the traditional Thomistic argument, which held that the universe was imbued with purpose, and that the ultimate purpose was to be found in God.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

But Demie made her something more, imbuing Maddy with a kind of gravity and depth that made her as infuriating to watch as she was exciting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

But rather than depict a childhood of adversity, her paintings empower the kids within them to claim their own space, imbuing her memories with strength and light.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026

She’s training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

Often imbuing his works with a political message, his previous pieces have alluded to immigration, the war in Ukraine and homelessness, among other things.

From BBC ● May 29, 2025

Rowan puts his hands on either side of her face and squeezes, imbuing her with an otherworldly gold light.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir


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