saturate
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Then bringing them together and not feeling like we have to make it pop or saturate the music or make the drums lighter and more radio-friendly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Revenue grew at greater than 24% a year from 2002 to 2022 when the company began to saturate the market for its customer relationship management software.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
UAVs are seen as a low-cost way to saturate targets and air defenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
“It instead launched a campaign to manipulate and saturate the streaming services and airwaves.”
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2024
That’s a useful lesson for Coca-Cola or Nike, who have hundreds of millions of dollars to spend on marketing and can afford to saturate all forms of media with their message.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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The harder question is what happens when that market saturates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The dancers wear separates that pop in a sunny array of orange, pink, purple, red and yellow and glow under Nicole Pearce’s lighting design, which saturates the stage with color.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
“Put all these things together — particularly on the Olympic coast, where we already get an ungodly amount of water falling from the sky, which saturates the sediments,” Fradkin says.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
Among the restricted or banned books in these states are biographies of Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. No wonder fear saturates publishing.
From Salon ● May 30, 2023
“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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“If markets were saturated, that would not be a big problem, but with inventories so thin, even the loss of 5-10 million barrels a week will keep prices elevated,” he told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
Authorities from Guerrero to Nayarit warned that Trudy could strengthen, and said heavy rainfall could cause major damage because the ground is already saturated from previous storms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
When soil becomes saturated with moisture, water fills many of the tiny spaces between soil particles, making it more difficult for gases to move through them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Scenes of romance, visions of war and domestic objects all compete for attention in the highly saturated comic-book style that was just being introduced to the broader world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
At various places inside the monkey house, they set out patches of paper saturated with spores of a harmless bacterium known as Bacillus subtilis niger.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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Fumes have travelled into the neighbouring Namur province, where authorities had to ask residents to stop saturating emergency phone lines with reports of the smell.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
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
Through a series of voice notes and calls, Perkins took BBC News through the storm as it barrelled through her community, bringing howling winds and saturating the area with rain.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024
That precipitation pushed runoff from the Appalachian Mountains, saturating the soil and knocking over trees.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2024
The sour smells of wood smoke and wool and cows cling to him, saturating his poncho, his rough skin.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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