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suffuse

[suh-fyooz] / səˈfjuz /


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Online tools suffuse the modern classroom, requiring students to navigate Canvas and download readings from the school library.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

Nonsurgical options like dermal fillers or fat grafting can suffuse depressions to create a more centered appearance.

From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2026

With each breath, we suffuse our bodies with oxygen-rich air that keeps our organs and tissues healthy and working properly -- and without oxygen, we can survive mere minutes.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024

Baumbach runs with their children’s antic energy and lets it suffuse other parts of his film, animating even the story’s more difficult third part with humor and affection that reflect the book’s tone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2022

The roses flamed up as though with a sudden passion from within; a new and profound significance seemed to suffuse the shining pages of the books.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Ms. Brown’s Erica tries to mediate the tension that suffuses the house, while Mr. Braithwaite’s Leni has a cool humor that also helps ease the fraught dynamic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

The potent melancholy that suffuses the song, and much of the album, tells you about how well that went.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

“And if ‘Killers’ miscalibrates its balance of perspectives, it also discovers, in the luminous recesses of Gladstone’s performance, a quality of contemplation that beautifully suffuses and modulates Scorsese’s faster, more frenetic rhythms,” Chang continues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2023

As the chicken roasts, the paste blends with the rendered fat from the skin and suffuses the meat with rich, complex flavors.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 3, 2023

The heavenly spheres are slowly spinning in their places, making a music that suffuses the cosmos.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

There’s something about an apple orchard that’s just suffused with nostalgia, especially if the trees bear heirloom fruits.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2026

American life has become suffused with the results of his self-aggrandizement.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026

Evoking classics of the ‘60s and ’70s Latin American boom, the novel is sensual and darkly comic, suffused with the sense that, as Arias writes, “fate was a cruel, playful thing.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

But rearing children is like a long baseball season suffused with an endless series of balls, strikes, hits and misses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

His face, suffused now with growing torment, continued to twist and work spasmodically.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

Shalit became a popular fixture in American households from the 1970s through to his retirement in 2010, stylistically standing out with his thick-framed spectacles, polkadot bowties and frizzed hair, suffusing his segments with pun-filled wordplay.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

As you chew, the cardamom bits send out little bolts of flavor, suffusing the cake with a lovely scent of spice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

From them, Lovato learned to throw her body into her otherwise supple voice, suffusing every peak and valley of a song with a magnitude fitting for rock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2022

In reality, of course, there was nothing there, not even a screen, just LED lights from a group of projectors suffusing the darkness.

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022

The light suffusing the Court was so plentiful and intense, it hurt their eyes.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson


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