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pervade

[per-veyd] / pərˈveɪd /


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Bell Labs, the legendary research-and-development organization, created foundational innovations like transistors that pervade the modern world.

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

Even in its earliest manifestations, there was a peculiar combination of grooving energy and inherent sadness in their music that would pervade their hitmaking efforts with Fleetwood Mac and beyond.

From Salon • Oct. 18, 2024

The crippling realities of the storm, which was followed in 2020 by a series of earthquakes and Covid-19, pervade much of the work, some of which is composed from debris left behind.

From New York Times • May 4, 2023

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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