suffused

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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

It flew in the face of the mantra of the “quiet professional” that suffused military culture, a kind of sober maturity that was critical to judicious use of deadly force.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026

The pommel-horse shape is accented with pencil-thin metallic piping and soft, suffused light pools in the hollows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Consider all that has happened in the past six months to erase the bearish sentiment that suffused our spring survey—and Wall Street.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

The air was cold and suffused with a strange odor, like clothes left to rot in a flooded basement.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs