penetration
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Think of the return of BTS, then, as a test of K-pop’s lasting cultural penetration, particularly in the United States, which BTS has long treated as something of a second home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Ng thinks execution will be key, particularly in lifting insurance penetration, improving return on equity and increasing dividend upstreaming from Etiqa over the medium term.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
“While Charter is continuing to push converged service penetration and has improved video performance, broadband performance has not followed and continues to experience headwinds,” Rollins wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
This has helped boost volume and improve household penetration for the first time in several years.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
"There are two people who want to talk to you about a high-level agent penetration of Britain."
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
He later explained that he was using a definition employed by the Border Patrol that defines “operational control” as “the ability to detect, respond and interdict border penetrations in areas deemed as high priority.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
Counterintelligence within U.S. intelligence agencies was downgraded in the 1970s following the ouster of CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton, who operated independently in seeking out foreign spy operations and penetrations of U.S. foreign spy agencies.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
“Little to none, compared to the extensive cyber penetrations and human spying activities,” the former senior intelligence officer told me.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2023
The CIA has suffered some disastrous penetrations of its spy networks in recent years.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2021
Farther penetrations into the interior proved the capacious windings of the river; the valley narrowed, the hills were succeeded by mountains, at every step the way became more difficult.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Léon Benett
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