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  • verb Present participle of saturate.

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Examples

  • My choice here was therefore very personal, Number 70, the view in saturating afternoon light through big rooms with small windows, and over a porch, to a stretch of water in the distance on the other side, carried me home to the lakes of East Gippsland, and claimed the prize in watercolor — again, with very strong competition, a photo finish one might say.

    Friends of the Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library Art Show, Stony Creek, Conn. 2009

  • My choice here was therefore very personal, Number 70, the view in saturating afternoon light through big rooms with small windows, and over a porch, to a stretch of water in the distance on the other side, carried me home to the lakes of East Gippsland, and claimed the prize in watercolor — again, with very strong competition, a photo finish one might say.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • I asked Haydu about the idea of saturating the — so to speak — market for markets.

    Independent farmers markets growing 2009

  • It seems the financial world can't go a day without finding this chosen one's name saturating the media.

    Money and Markets: Free Investment Email Newsletter 2009

  • It seems the financial world can't go a day without finding this chosen one's name saturating the media.

    unknown title 2009

  • What may be termed the saturating power of the brain is limited, and after it has soaked up a rather small number of truths, it can contain no more until it has in some way disposed of those that it still has -- either by making them part of its own living structure, which is done only by making immediate application of them; or by dropping them below the threshold of consciousness, that is, in common language, forgetting them.

    Study of Child Life Marion Foster Washburne

  • This gives writing performed with a rollerball pen the look of fountain pen ink on the page, and therefore its distinctive writing qualities, such as saturating deeper and wider into the paper.

    Nib Titanium | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Worried that high-performing charters are "saturating" Harlem, State Sen. Bill Perkins and State Assemblyman Keith Wright have backed legislation that would gut state per-pupil funding at charter schools and allow a single charter operator to educate no more than 5% of a district's students.

    Charter Schools Flourish in Harlem Jason L. Riley 2010

  • Worried that high-performing charters are "saturating" Harlem, State Sen. Bill Perkins and State Assemblyman Keith Wright have backed legislation that would gut state per-pupil funding at charter schools and allow a single charter operator to educate no more than 5% of a district's students.

    Charter Schools Flourish in Harlem Jason L. Riley 2010

  • Worried that high-performing charters are "saturating" Harlem, State Sen. Bill Perkins and State Assemblyman Keith Wright have backed legislation that would gut state per-pupil funding at charter schools and allow a single charter operator to educate no more than 5% of a district's students.

    Charter Schools Flourish in Harlem Jason L. Riley 2010

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