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Spread widely throughout an area, group, or situation.

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pervasive

A pervasive sense of optimism followed the successful opening.
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The archive's digital folders revealed a different issue. Version confusion was endemic to its informal file-sharing practice, where everyone saved separate copies with similar names. The resulting uncertainty was pervasive across the folders.
From One Oddity or a Larger Pattern?.
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