porous
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The Cowboys have a porous defense, and the scheme just isn’t paying dividends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Ms. Cline creates a porous mental tapestry of frayed gaps and vivid imagery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
That porous structure would have absorbed and weakened some of the energy from the collision, helping Deimos survive the impact.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Pesticides prohibited in Kenya are sometimes smuggled across this porous border with Tanzania and used in farms within the Amboseli area, where elephants live near human settlements and are known to raid farms for food.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
His nose was as porous and dark as volcanic rock.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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