saturate
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UAVs are seen as a low-cost way to saturate targets and air defenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
These creations, often presented as real, saturate social feeds with content ranging from fake Spotify bands to TikTok videos claiming to show explosions on the frontlines in Ukraine.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
India is also developing swarm drone tactics - deploying large numbers of smaller UAVs to overwhelm and saturate air defences, allowing higher-value assets to penetrate, say experts.
From BBC ● May 9, 2025
But small-time producers already situated within a country’s borders can saturate the market.
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2024
For a minute I thought the walls had begun to discharge the moisture that must saturate them, but then I saw the noise came from a small fountain in one corner of the room.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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The harder question is what happens when that market saturates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Once triggered, the system saturates the house and property with water and firefighting foam, “creating an environment that is too wet to burn,” according to the company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
Within the first three episodes starring Gatwa, Davies makes room for two broad song and dance numbers, introduces a supervillain played by “RuPaul’s Drag Race” royalty Jinkx Monsoon, and saturates sets with color.
From Salon ● May 10, 2024
And as the heavy rain saturates soil and snow, the threat for landslides and avalanches increases.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2024
“A one in a billion—no trillion—anomaly, born from the oddness that saturates your county.”
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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We live saturated in opinion, reaction and digital noise, a culture that turns other people into content: flattened, accelerated, easy to dismiss.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Human skin is composed primarily of ceramides, fatty acids and cholesterol, which are not classified as saturated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
The region's intensive care units were "saturated," he warned.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
The creature comes from an extremely hot world with an atmosphere saturated with ammonia.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
The international press was simply saturated with stories of violence from Africa, and this one was particularly bland and pedantic, the deputy editor wrote, but perhaps Richard could do a piece on the human angle?
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Sabroso maximizes the visual pop and sharp humor that defines every scene, saturating frames in “see me” colors popping citrusy in one moment and fiery in the next, lifting the cast’s audacious, extreme performances.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2025
That precipitation pushed runoff from the Appalachian Mountains, saturating the soil and knocking over trees.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2024
Faster than you could say “candy cane,” I was saturating every squirrel-trafficked inch of our backyard using a spray bottle filled with 100% peppermint essential oil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2024
Could there be a danger of video game adaptations going the same way as Marvel movies and losing audience interest by saturating the market?
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2024
“Do you want to go home?” he said quietly, a different pain than mine saturating his voice.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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