How to Use pervasive in a Sentence
pervasive
adjective
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And in the last decade, use of the algorithms has become pervasive.
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Jo Craven McGinty,
WSJ,
14 Oct. 2016
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The fear of running out of money is pervasive in the U.S.
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cleveland,
11 Apr. 2021
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And if the rot is pervasive, buy a new roof with a new car under it instead.
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Ray Magliozzi,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Feb. 2022
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This pervasive ambivalence seems to be the norm among my peers.
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Jill Filipovic,
Cosmopolitan,
2 May 2017
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Still, the building feels huge, and the emptiness is pervasive.
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Bill Plaschke,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2021
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Talk of the war, and the potential fate of Kyiv, was pervasive.
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New York Times,
8 Mar. 2022
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Just how pervasive are those sorts of attitudes around the sport these days?
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Howard Fendrich,
The Christian Science Monitor,
14 Oct. 2021
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Yet there doesn’t seem to be the same sense of pervasive dread that there was in the seventies and eighties.
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Masha Gessen,
The New Yorker,
12 Nov. 2023
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But there was also a more pervasive sense of letting go.
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Alli Harvey,
Anchorage Daily News,
19 Dec. 2020
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This is a pervasive opinion people have of pro athletes—and not even the worst one.
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Brianne Tracy,
PEOPLE.com,
23 Apr. 2018
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That spirit of on-the-fly abandon was pervasive throughout the set.
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Chris Nashawaty,
SI.com,
17 Apr. 2018
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In the gas that occupies the space between the stars, the hard stuff is almost all-pervasive.
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Alexander MacKinnon,
Smithsonian,
28 July 2017
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The reform takes aim at a pervasive form of social media fraud.
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Nicholas Confessore,
New York Times,
11 July 2018
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The pastor was intimately aware that the use of drugs was pervasive in town.
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Stephania Taladrid,
The New Yorker,
21 June 2022
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The hope that change will prove constructive is pervasive.
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Tim Sullivan,
The Courier-Journal,
19 Apr. 2018
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The bias is so pervasive that some have turned to hiding their race from appraisers.
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TheWeek,
5 Sep. 2020
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Boser: The idea of learning styles, which is just pervasive.
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Katherine Long,
The Seattle Times,
24 May 2017
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In a country wracked by a drug war without end, death can feel pervasive.
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Oscar Lopez,
New York Times,
3 Oct. 2021
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The poignancy of the play is pervasive, not depending on moments of high tragedy.
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Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 2023
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Nothing has been as pervasive as this virus or spread as rapidly.
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Ed Silverman,
STAT,
9 July 2020
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White supremacy doesn’t need a hood and a torch to be pervasive in our everyday lives.
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Jeneé Osterheldt,
kansascity,
27 Oct. 2017
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The songs, which are pervasive, and endless, are ear worms that are catchy as all get-out.
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Katie Walsh,
idahostatesman,
18 Dec. 2017
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In the longer-term, the effects could be far deeper and more pervasive across a range of asset classes.
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Mike Bird,
WSJ,
5 Mar. 2021
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Of these, our smartphones are the most mundane, the most pervasive, and the least visible.
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Vanessa Chang,
WIRED,
10 July 2019
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There are many other images that are way more pervasive.
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Michael Slenske and Molly Langmuir,
The Cut,
18 Apr. 2018
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But that mind-set about women and fitness was pervasive.
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Lindsay Crouse,
New York Times,
16 Aug. 2016
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Sight gags and slapstick erupt from a pervasive atmosphere of dread and terror.
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Christopher Kompanek,
Houston Chronicle,
21 Mar. 2018
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How much did your other castmates grasp just how pervasive and huge that became for you?
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Adam B. Vary,
Variety,
20 Apr. 2022
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But one of the most pervasive and least-talked about issues confronting new moms and dads is loneliness.
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Annabelle Timsit,
Quartz,
29 Oct. 2019
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Yet other sources of deep and pervasive tension have remained.
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Raja Shehadeh,
The New Yorker,
11 May 2021
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