Word: seep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past, some researchers had speculated that lead in bone might seep into the bloodstream during that process and pose a risk...
However isolated us Harvardians may feel from the outside world, the thoughts and opinions pervading larger American society seep through the Yard's wrought-iron gates and into our minds...
...truthfully, it hasn't. I've seen the commercials cut in at exactly the 45:00 mark in games, before injury time begins. I've heard Al Trautwig's absurd commentary seep to below-Olympic-skiing levels. I've even listened to a foreign teaching fellow talk about his trip to Shay's bar to see a game: "The bar was really crowded, but all the good seats by the television were empty...
...words still seep into the reader's marrow, 42 years after they were first ( published. "I am an invisible man," Ralph Ellison declared in the opening sentence of his only novel. "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." If they do register his presence, it is as "a figure in a nightmare which the sleeper tries with all his strength to destroy...
...thing everyone agrees on in this debate is that rainwater and groundwater are inherently clean; the trouble usually comes when chemicals, sewage and the like seep into water sources. "Are we going to allow pollutants to get in and then attempt to remove them with engineering," asks Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a lawyer with the N.R.D.C., "or is the most sensible way to stop the kind of development that is causing pollution?" The clean-it- up strategy might work for a while, but in the end, prevention makes much more sense...