adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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more
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Cultural and social factors are more pervasive when parents like to see a fat child.
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The opportunities for classification afforded by the National Curriculum are more pervasive and more deeply institutionalised than any previous system.
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An even more pervasive problem is that of consistency of performance across time.
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By focusing on discrete activities liability rules are capable of creating a potentially more pervasive field of deterrence.
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In fact, international law is both more pervasive and more effectual than we generally realise.
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The temporal properties of the environment are more pervasive and more subtle than any series of reminders.
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Strange how childhood impressions linger, often remaining more pervasive than the experiences of later life.
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Stronger than the smells of Lefortovo or Vladimir, more pervasive than the smells of the Lubyanka interrogation cells or the train.
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The commodification of human emotions and relations is one of the most pervasive influences of modern advertising.
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But the most pervasive and important mechanism is based on chemical substances called pheromones.
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The distinction between night and day is one of the most pervasive rhythms that we experience.
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But none are so pervasive , nor so completely satisfactory, that they rule out the need for other lines of explanation.
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Bias is so pervasive that hardly a sentence in normal speech lacks it, and many utterances contain little else.
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First, it is not so pervasive .
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At times the general dampness became so pervasive that you failed to notice.
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They have been so pervasive and so self-evident that there has been little point in articulating them.
■ NOUN
influence
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We can only speculate on whether this is another example of the pervasive influence of psychoanalytic thinking in our culture.
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The commodification of human emotions and relations is one of the most pervasive influences of modern advertising.
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Now the pervasive influence of irrational forces, incongruous in a profession which prizes objective judgment, is to undergo scientific scrutiny.
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They are certainly a less pervasive influence than are the boardroom knights who sign over company funds to the Conservatives.
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In recent months opposition parties, hostile to his pervasive influence , had called for his resignation.
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This was partly due to the unattractiveness of education classes and partly to the pervasive influence of the public-school obsession with games.
sense
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Apart from these tender moments, however, I struggled to quell a pervasive sense of emptiness inside.
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Yet a pervasive sense of shame hung over our profession.
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The perception was frightening, but there was a sensation of healing in his chest and a pervasive sense of well-being.
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My earliest memories include a pervasive sense of exile.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Alcohol is still a pervasive problem with high - school students.
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She argues that sexual discrimination remains a pervasive element in corporate culture.
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Violence and crime are pervasive features of city life.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Again, we see the surprisingly pervasive role that presumptions of contextual appropriateness play in successful communication.
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Apart from these tender moments, however, I struggled to quell a pervasive sense of emptiness inside.
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How effective is this pervasive imagery in achieving female conformity?
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In this dynamic perspective, pervasive and local features of style are equally parts of the pattern.
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Mr Izmailov cited pervasive pollution, bad weather, rampant poaching and over-fishing as the reasons for the declining catch.
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The bad was the pervasive and inevitable corruption of morals and manners that accompanied such a compulsion for the luxurious.
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The high sun had burned off the pervasive mist and cleared heaven and earth.
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Though enunciation is given to such feelings on occasion, it is by no means pervasive .