as in penetrable
capable of being passed into or through
a permeable fabric that allows your body heat to escape will be much more comfortable in the summertime
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Recent Examples of permeable
Their skin is more permeable, and their surface area relative to body weight is three times that of adults, further increasing their risk.
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Arlene Blum, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Updates include removing existing paths and replacing them with permeable pathways while introducing sun shading and a rain cover via a new pergola.
—Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Hua adds that even when herbicides and insecticides aren’t designed to harm amphibians, the additives in these products—like surfactants—can still be dangerous since frogs and toads can absorb these substances through their sensitive, permeable skin.
—Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 May 2025
In both the Palisades and Altadena, as soon as the fires were contained, the water companies spent a full week flushing the water lines in an effort to prevent any contaminants from the fires from settling on the bottom of pipes or penetrating into chemically permeable PVC, Olivares said.
—Ashley Belanger – May 27, ArsTechnica, 27 May 2025
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Arlene Blum, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Updates include removing existing paths and replacing them with permeable pathways while introducing sun shading and a rain cover via a new pergola.
—Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Hua adds that even when herbicides and insecticides aren’t designed to harm amphibians, the additives in these products—like surfactants—can still be dangerous since frogs and toads can absorb these substances through their sensitive, permeable skin.
—Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 May 2025
In both the Palisades and Altadena, as soon as the fires were contained, the water companies spent a full week flushing the water lines in an effort to prevent any contaminants from the fires from settling on the bottom of pipes or penetrating into chemically permeable PVC, Olivares said.
—Ashley Belanger – May 27, ArsTechnica, 27 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for permeable
Adjective
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Mescal’s performance is carefully pitched in its quiet devastation, but Lionel, hidden behind his thick glasses and polite manner, is never quite penetrable.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
22 May 2025
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Strong actors also can’t prop up a script built out of barely penetrable mumbo jumbo.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
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The process of seasoning involves heating up unsaturated fats, often high-heat oils like grape-seed oil or canola oil, atop a porous metal like carbon steel or cast iron.—
Matthew Korfhage,
Wired News,
6 Aug. 2025
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My scrim between reality and memory, truth and simulation, had become porous, faulty.—
Sophie Brickman,
The Atlantic,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Permeable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permeable. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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