These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'pervasive.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Tania Rabesandratana, Science | AAAS, 10 June 2021 That led to pioneering the now- pervasive private equity ownership in the energy industry. 2021 Her team found that takeout food and drink packaging was the most pervasive: Single-use bags, bottles, containers, and wrappers accounted for 44% of all waste across environments. 2021 As algorithmic thinking and systems become even more pervasive, designing transparency and choice into them is paramount in business.Д¬hristopher Knerr, Forbes, 6 Oct. A term used, in the context of misstatements, to describe the effects on the financial statements of misstatements or the possible effects on the financial statements of misstatements, if any, that are undetected due to an inability to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence. 2021 But the novel really seems to have been a case of a first-class imagination going to work on what had become all- pervasive material.ДЄdam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. In ISA705 term Pervasive have been defined as following. From Latin pervsus, past participle of pervdere, to pervade see pervade. 2021 The things that scare me have become less shocking, more pervasive accordingly, the boundaries between the real and the horrific have become more porous. Something, especially something bad, that is pervasive is present or felt throughout a place or thing.the pervasive influence of the army in national life. Having the quality or tendency to pervade or permeate: the pervasive odor of garlic. 2021 Other countries have proposed similar measures but, for most of the world, this problem is still pervasive. 2021 Contaminated hand sanitizers have been pervasive throughout the pandemic.

Jim Vargas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. Recent Examples on the Web Hunger is also pervasive one in three residents of San Diego County, or over 1 million people, were nutrition insecure in March with no guarantee where their next meal would come from. Pervasive computing, also called ubiquitous computing, is the growing trend of embedding computational capability (generally in the form of microprocessors) into everyday objects to make them effectively communicate and perform useful tasks in a way that minimizes the end users need to interact with computers as computers.

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