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imbue

[im-byoo] / ɪmˈbju /


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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

Although his public persona was quite vivid—convivial, erudite but unpretentious, articulate, and unfailingly charming—he did not imbue his buildings with a distinctive graphic sensibility.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 2025

So when we’re constructing it, we tried to imbue as much meaning as we could put into it and hopefully that would come through.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 19, 2024

“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

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

He didn’t just co-write this tale of two estranged brothers excavating their complicated history — he imbues it with his essence, its reason for being.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 3, 2025

Taylor imbues a grave defiance in Perfidia, rounding out what could be a one-note character in someone else’s hands into a moving, heartbreaking portrait of a rebel.

From Salon Sep. 28, 2025

This rule was 'stablish'd by th' Eternal Mind; Nor virtue's self, nor prudence are confin'd To colour; none imbues the honest heart; To science none belongs, and none to art.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various

"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

Because these celebrity exorcists are imbued with a kind of divine authority in their audiences’ minds by their proximity to supernatural matters, their social media followings can be unusually strong and loyal.

From Slate Jun. 8, 2026

The narrative swap imbued the character with a more substantial motivation.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 11, 2026

These Celtics have an underdog’s mettle, imbued by their eccentric head coach and jiu-jitsu enthusiast Joe Mazzulla.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 2, 2026

Yossarian was alone in a ponderous, primeval lull in which everything green looked black and everything else was imbued with the color of pus.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Rahele Jomepour Bell’s deft use of acrylic paint and soft pastels evokes a world of hazy tranquility, a palette of greens, golds and oranges imbuing each page with a palpable warmth.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

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

Best of all was Ms. Williams, imbuing Alona with a magnetic stage presence, emotional resonance and vocal versatility.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 2, 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

After forging the blade, she had spent another three months using Transformation to engrave the weapon, imbuing it with its magical properties.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee




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