pervasive
Yesterday's reports underline how pervasively poor management can seep through an organization.
Tension hung in the air as pervasively as the smoke of hundreds of cigarettes.
The materials pervasively presented subjective opinions as scientific fact.

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Filling and completing
backfill
box ticking
brick
brick something up
brim
fill
jam
occupy
overcrowd
overrun
pack something/somewhere out
permeate
plug
squeeze (someone/something) in/squeeze (someone/something) into something
stuffing
suffuse
supersaturated
take something up
tank
tie

Examples of pervasively

pervasively
Children who experience maltreatment, however, often show a fundamental alteration of the organization of evaluation, representing themselves and their worlds in pervasively negative terms.
Attachment disruptions seem to affect neuroendocrine regulation earlier and more pervasively than attachment formation.
Our fossils show no evidence of having pervasively grown through the sediment and as such appear not to be protists or microbial colonies.
Fluids were unable to pervasively infiltrate into the body even though fluids may have been abundantly available in the direct vicinity (see next section).
Thus, while engaged in relatively high levels of alcohol use, the heavydrinking-only subgroup was not as pervasively impaired as the mixed subgroup.
A powerful but erroneous message implicit in accredited classification rules may have pervasively undermined critical enquiry.
These features occur pervasively through large (hundreds of metres) areas of rock and consistently imply northeast-directed flow.
English verbal morphology is pervasively regular, and distinct tense variants are minority forms and linguistically marked.
Most ultramafites are pervasively altered and their primary mineralogy is unknown.
We further hypothesized that boys with high levels of conduct problems in early adolescence would show pervasively poor adjustment in young adulthood.
Higher in the series, pervasively recrystallized quartzites and marbles dominate.
However, valuable information about an utterance's meaning may be contained within the communicative act itself - in the nonverbal behaviours that naturally and pervasively accompany speech.
Intrinsic motivation is pervasively evident in humans.
A 'melange' is a purely descriptive (non-genetic) field term for a pervasively mixed unit, irrespective of whether it was formed by tectonic or sedimentary processes, or both.
To individualise the solutions, the texts pervasively emphasise engagement in practices of self-reflection and self-improvement as a key to positive outcomes and the effective management of risk.
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