porous
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Congolese mining towns tend to be porous and migrant-heavy, rough, difficult places to live in some of the country’s roughest, most difficult areas, where there is plenty of reason to distrust outsiders.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026
India shares a long and porous border with Bangladesh, where migration has historically been driven by economic hardship and longstanding family links.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
As that happens, the porous rock temporarily locks up, slowing or stopping the rupture before it can continue spreading and becoming larger.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026
Numbers were once even greater - after a devastating famine in the mid-1990s triggered what rights groups described as a silent exodus over a more porous border with China.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
Almost all the rain falls during the May-to-December rainy season and rapidly sinks hundreds of feet into the porous limestone, from where it cannot easily be extracted.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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