pervious

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This hot, mineral-rich, and often smokey water seeks the most pervious path through the Earth's crust and encounters cold, oxygen-rich water at the sea floor.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2024

The company also expects an insurance margin in fiscal 2024 of 13.5%–15.5%, higher than the pervious year's margin of 12.6%.

From Reuters • Aug. 20, 2023

Reminisce about the Bluebonnet Bowl, the postseason game once played in the old Houston Astrodome that was the setting for the only pervious matchup of the Boilermakers and Volunteers in 1979.

From Fox News • Dec. 14, 2021

The seizure is the largest of its kind in the UK - beating the pervious record set when the Met confiscated £114m of cryptocurrency on 24 June.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2021

I find the reduced metal is more pervious to light when fixed with the cyanide solution, particularly in weak negatives.

From Notes and Queries, Number 229, March 18, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various