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pervasive

adjective

Reveal meaning and examples

Spread widely throughout an area, group, or situation.

A pervasive sense of optimism followed the successful opening.

Dictionary practice example.

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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