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• s  able to absorb fluids
  the partly porous walls of our digestive system
  compacting the soil to make it less porous
• a  full of pores or vessels or holes
• s  allowing passage in and out
  our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous

• In other ways, the boundary between new and old media has become porous.
• Bread was a big challenge because of its porous nature.
• He has bounced radar pulses off simulated lunar crusts made of porous lava and compressed lava dust, and found that both are highly radar transparent.

• poriferous
• holey

• nonporous

News & Articles

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• Discovery of new material state counterintuitive to laws of physics
  ( DOE/Argonne National Laboratory ) Dense materials made porous, doubling the number of nanotraps for use as water filters, chemical sensors, sequestration, hydrogen fuel cell storage, drug delivery, and catalysis.
  June 12, 2013 - EurekAlert!
• Bucs banking on improved play from defensive line
  The Tampa Bay Buccaneers nearly set an NFL record for yards allowed through the air, and a porous secondary was only part of the reason.
  June 11, 2013 - FOX 13 Tampa Bay

Quotes

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• Jerry Manuel in USA Today
  We needed to win a ball game, that was for sure,said Mets manager Jerry Manuel. "We got some two-out hits and Johan battled again though somewhat porous defense that we played but he battled, he battled."
• Gordon Brown in International Herald Tribune
  Border security and national security are inextricably linked. A porous border is an open invitation to those who wish to harm America, and for too long our borders have been an especially inviting access point for drug smugglers, human... Trent Franks http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEsFBgiMyoU_1o5bvFZBdNUkAVebQ BorderFire Report http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.borderfirereport.net/jim-kouri/mexican-gun-battle-spills-over-into-el-paso.php&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGesIE5AlI7xGxgemUXQA3PBcjkkw Jul 5, 2010 76115 102886 porousness The insecurity on the border, and the porousness of the border, ...... is a problem for both countries and we have got to approach this with a new security strategy and that is one of the things we are discussing at the moment," Brown said.