Sentence examples for pervasive term from inspiring English sources
But mention the odious and increasingly pervasive term "STEM education," and instead of cheerleading gear, I reach for my... pistil.
In 2010, the Science Times columnist Natalie Angier wrote an essay objecting to "the odious and increasingly pervasive term 'STEM education.' " In the years since, the acronym (for science, technology, engineering and mathematics) has gone from pervasive to unavoidable; a Web search for "STEM education" returns 105 million results.
Along the way, heterochrony became such a pervasive term that it lost some of its explanatory power; any change in timing became heterochrony, whether evolutionarily relevant or not (Zelditch 2001, especially pp. vii ix).
How do we, collectively, define one of the most pervasive terms of this generation?
A group of trade associations are protesting the new rules claiming that the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act (crafted back when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president) is "extremely complex," and questioning the meaning of words like "serious, repeated, willful or pervasive," terms that have been part of OSHA parlance for decades.
Context 'Context' is an all-pervasive term in pragmatics.
Search terms included Autis*, Asperger, Autistic Disorder and Child Development and Disorders, Pervasive (mesh term), or their other-language equivalent.
"Sports fans are not as pervasive in terms of quantity in the theater world," said Thomas Sadoski, a co-star of "Other Desert Cities," now at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.
"It's pervasive in terms of how it effects all of our department".
I think it all kind of comes together to build that massive amount of fear that has become so pervasive in terms of every aspect of our lives.
Only about 1% of the remaining Northern Hemisphere temperate broad-leafed forests is substantially unaltered and old growth; the vast majority are either managed for wood production, are in plantations, or they reflect the pervasive, long-term effects of human land use practices.
