pervasive
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People are just afraid or they don’t want the hassle, and it is pervasive.
From Slate • May 26, 2026
They also spoke out against "pervasive, opaque and harmful industrial subsidies, market-distortive practices of state-owned enterprises, and all forms of forced technology transfer".
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
It is, of course, the pervasive smell of jet fuel.
From BBC • May 3, 2026
In the pre-Giuliani years, the institute insisted that New York was “not ungovernable” and that pervasive crime was “not inevitable,” Mr. Salam says.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
The walls, the paneling, the pervasive heaviness of nearly new fixtures, the colossal firedogs, the walk-in fireplaces of bright new stone referred back through the centuries to a time of lonely castles in mute forests.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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