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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of permeate.

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Examples

  • “Ironically, then, it would seem that the authors of the ‘Copycats’ report, which delineates a wired-up Britain permeated by the ‘copycat’ tendency in the realm of digital artefacts, are themselves unconscious copycats, albeit of a different, more rarefied kind, in the realm of ideas.”

    Entertainment industry bullshit 2009

  • This claim is highly problematic in that the texts that record the edicts and prayers, in particular, were compiled long after the Nihon shoki in an age Norinaga himself described as permeated by the “Chinese mind” and these forms have their own stylistic conventions.

    The Kokugaku (Native Studies) School Burns, Susan 2007

  • His name permeated all the significant moments of the continent's development from its colonial past, and he had played a key supportive role in South Africa's path to freedom.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • In fact, so permeated is children’s literature by progressive ideals that Mickenberg and Nel were forced to narrow their scope by focusing on texts that have fallen out of print.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • In fact, so permeated is children’s literature by progressive ideals that Mickenberg and Nel were forced to narrow their scope by focusing on texts that have fallen out of print.

    Remembering Simple Joe Malarkey 2009

  • '' Allah bears witness that the love of jihad and death in the cause of Allah has dominated my life and the verses of the sword permeated every cell in my heart, 'and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together.'

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • '' Allah bears witness that the love of jihad and death in the cause of Allah has dominated my life and the verses of the sword permeated every cell in my heart, 'and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together.'

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • '' Allah bears witness that the love of jihad and death in the cause of Allah has dominated my life and the verses of the sword permeated every cell in my heart, 'and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together.'

    911Blogger.com - Paying Attention to 9/11 Related News 2009

  • '' Allah bears witness that the love of jihad and death in the cause of Allah has dominated my life and the verses of the sword permeated every cell in my heart, 'and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together.'

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • City minister Myners seeks review of how investment banking has 'permeated' society

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

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