Definition of "permeating" [permeating]

• Present participle of permeate. (verb)

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• ""Reform" has been the buzzword permeating the defense industry since President Barack Obama signaled his intention to trim defense programs last fall."
• "There's a new N-word permeating our culture and it has nothing to do with racial epithets."
• "If you can't buy gas and you can't buy food and you can't buy clothing, and just like the Christmas holidays, you can't -- there's a limitation to that, it makes you feel -- there is a lot of hopelessness and I think that that is kind of permeating everything we're seeing right now."