as in dripping
containing, covered with, or thoroughly penetrated by water
the carpet should be damp but not entirely saturated
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as in soaked
to wet thoroughly with liquid
saturate your hair with water before applying the dye
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Recent Examples of saturated
Kerry Pieri, Architectural Digest, 8 Jan. 2025
For her, Lebanon’s endless crises were demonstrative of the real country, too saturated with sectarian divisions to ever hope for freedom from foreign control.
—Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The focus is more on reducing saturated fat, not total fats.
—Allison Aubrey, NPR, 19 Dec. 2024
Heart disease risk increased when saturated fats were replaced with refined carbohydrates and protein from meat.12
While avoiding overconsuming foods high in saturated fat is wise, most people can enjoy beef tallow in small amounts as part of a healthy diet.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 30 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
Far more saturated shades can be found elsewhere throughout the spaces.
—Kerry Pieri, Architectural Digest, 8 Jan. 2025
For her, Lebanon’s endless crises were demonstrative of the real country, too saturated with sectarian divisions to ever hope for freedom from foreign control.
—Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The focus is more on reducing saturated fat, not total fats.
—Allison Aubrey, NPR, 19 Dec. 2024
Heart disease risk increased when saturated fats were replaced with refined carbohydrates and protein from meat.12
While avoiding overconsuming foods high in saturated fat is wise, most people can enjoy beef tallow in small amounts as part of a healthy diet.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 30 Dec. 2024
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Sun-soaked and beautiful, the film takes place in Santa Barbara in 1979, where Dorothea (Annette Bening) is trying to raise her son (Lucas Jade Zumann) in an ever-changing world.George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
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More than an inch of rain over several days soaked the grounds making muddy hills slippery and dangerous, forcing most spectators onto the narrow walkways and creating huge, impassable (and in some places, scary) bottlenecks.Candace Oehler, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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Chief among them are efforts to train crews to identify and treat an overdose and a push to saturate fleets with naloxone, the opioid antagonist, commonly administered as a nasal spray under the trade name Narcan, that can reverse overdoses and retrieve a fading patient from a mortal slide.C.J. Chivers James Patrick Cronin Elena Hecht Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 6 June 2024
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To give the vinegar a longer working time, saturate paper towels and press them against the glass like wallpaper.Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
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The results, which are beautifully austere, flooded by sunlight but somehow cold, infuriate Van Buren, played with a masculine bluster by Guy Pearce, who sounds as if his idea of the Breakfast of Champions was a bowl of ground glass drowned in whole milk.Tom Gliatto, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
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Others may have slipped under the radar, drowned out by the drumbeat of breaking news.JTA Staff Report, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2025
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Abraham was alone, drenched in white and walking, as small shudders passed through his body.Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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You're just drenched in sweat under all your fur coats.Nicholas Rice, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024
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Since hair is weakest when wet, sleeping in wet hair can cause hair to become dry and brittle, causing split ends, breakage, and fallout.Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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The state historically experiences highly variable weather and climate conditions, typically shifting from periods of very dry to very wet weather.ABC Climate Unit, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2025
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There are, miraculously enough, two 2024 horror films about an American nun who joins a convent in Italy where she’s impregnated with something unholy as part of an evil Church plot.Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
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Instead, the narrative focuses on Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne), a factory worker in the wake of World War I who is impregnated by her rich boss and then discarded after his mother disapproves.Esther Zuckerman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
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According to the sheriff's department, someone strolling along a trail near Santa Rosa discovered a man's corpse in a flooded creek.Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
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Hours later, a man's body was found in the same flooded creek, Brice said.CBS News, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
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In another photo, the trio of ladies were immersed in conversation, as was Chalamet, and all four stars were smiling.Julia Moore, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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Some tea bags release billions of tiny plastic particles when immersed in hot water, creating tea that can harm your health and increase your risk of cancer—but not all tea is equally as dangerous.Hatty Willmoth, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
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“Saturated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saturated. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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