pervade
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Its technologies not only pervade the modern world; they buttress the global economy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
As 10-minute online deliveries by "quick commerce" apps like Zomato, BlinkIt and Zepto pervade urban India, hundreds of thousands of neighbourhood stores across cities have closed down.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2025
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, however, the concepts of individualism and self-sufficiency began to pervade U.S. culture and politics.
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2025
“And I just don’t think it will be controlled. I think it will pervade the culture.”
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2024
Or the organic phosphates may interact with various drugs, or with synthetic materials, food additives — who can say what else of the infinite number of man-made substances that now pervade our world?
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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