pervasive
spreading widely and present throughout something
Word origin: From Latin pervadere, to spread through.
Pervasive in a sentence
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A pervasive sense of distrust gradually undermined the partnership.
A pervasive distrust of institutions colored every response in the survey.
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Verbal · Text Completion
The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.
Using “pervasive” well
Pervasive describes something that seeps into and is present throughout a whole, often used of moods, influences, or assumptions.
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